The Naturalists

late 1870s

Jehan Georges Vibert

Painter, French, 1840 - 1902

Artwork overview

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; consigned 3 November 1868 to (Goupil and Co., Paris); sold 2 March 1869 by the artist to "M. Reitlinger."[1] August M. Whittingham; bequest 1980 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The Goupil reference is in Eric M. Zafran, Cavaliers and Cardinals: Nineteenth-Century French Anecdotal Painting, exh. cat., Taft Museum, Cincinnati; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York; Cincinnatti, 1992: 106, no. 40. A Vibert painting by this title is stock number 3699 on page 90 (row 1) of Goupil & Cie's stockbook 4, which provides the consignment and sale details (copy in NGA curatorial files, from Goupil & Cie and Boussod, Valadon & Co. Records, 1846-1919, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, http://primo.getty.edu/GRI:GETTY_ALMA21134399430001551). "M. Reitlinger" possibly refers to the proprietor of Galerie Reitlinger in Paris.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 22, repro.

1992

  • Cavaliers and Cardinals: Nineteenth Century French Anecdotal Paintings, Taft Museum, Cincinnati; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York, 25 June 1992 - 17 January 1993, no. 40, repro.

2011

  • A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 15 October 2011 - 20 February 2012, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1902

  • Vibert, Jehan-Georges. La Comedie en Peinture. London, 1902: repro. 153.

1996

  • Hendrick, Robert. "The Artist as Myth-Maker: Creating Heroes in Nineteenth-Century French Science." Art & Academe. 1996: 28.

Inscriptions

lower left: J G Vibert

Wikidata ID

Q46630248

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