Provenance

W.H. de Heus de Nijenrode; (his estate sale, Utrecht, 24 April 1873, no. 80, as Chevaux se désaltérant dans la rivière). (Stanislas Baron [d. 1910], Paris);[1] (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 March 1874, no. 34, as Chevaux à l'abreuvoir).[2] Sourigues or Sourignes;[3] (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 February 1881, no. 21, as L'Abreuvoir). Adolphe A. Tavernier, Paris;[4] (sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11 June 1894, no. 16, as L'Abreuvoir). (Durand-Ruel, Paris);[5] purchased 1896 by John Wesley Kauffman [1844-1904], Saint Louis; (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3 February 1905, no. 11); purchased by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Baron was an art dealer and collector, and a former wine merchant. See: Matilda McQuaid, "Cooper Hewitt Short Stories: A Gift from J.P. Morgan," https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2016/11/02/cooper-hewitt-short-stories-a-gift-from-j-p-morgan/ (posted 2 November 2016, accessed 6 October 2017).
[2] Louis Soullié, Constant Troyon, Paris, 1900: 63-64.
[3] The spelling of this name according to Lugt is Sourignes.
[4] The painting was lent by Tavernier to the exhibition Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvre: The Choice of the French Private Galleries, in Paris in 1883.
[5] According to the 1905 Kauffman sale catalogue.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1883

1978

Wikidata ID

Q46626889