A Dream of Woods and Sunlight
c. 1870
Painter, French, 1824 - 1886
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
framed: 22 7/8 x 30 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (58.1 x 76.84 x 9.53 cm)
unframed: 15 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (40.01 x 60.33 cm) -
Accession
2015.143.17
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1956
Visionaries and Dreamers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 7 April - 27 May 1956, no. 12.
1959
Loan Exhibition. Masterpieces of the Corcoran Gallery of Art: A Benefit Exhibition in Honor of the Gallery's Centenary, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 28 January - 7 March 1959, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1978
The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue.
Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, 26 October 1978 - 2 September 1979, no. 23, 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
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 193, no. 229.
Inscriptions
lower left: Monticelli
Wikidata ID
Q46629413