The Frog Pond
1876
Painter, French, 1807 - 1876
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 78.74 × 104.14 cm (31 × 41 in.)
framed: 110.49 × 135.89 × 12.7 cm (43 1/2 × 53 1/2 × 5 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.27
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Wilhelm Schaus Gallery, New York), at least in 1879.[1] Charles A. Dana [1819-1897], New York. (sale, American Art Association, at Chickering Hall, New York, 10 April 1900, no. 77); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold April 1900 to William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[2] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] "Notes," The Art Journal 5, n.s. (November 1879): 352, discussing the exhibition of the painting at the Schaus Gallery. Hermann Schaus took over his uncle's business in 1886, but continued to use the original name even after his uncle's death in 1895.
[2] See Knoedler Stock Book 5, stock no. 9172, p. 23, row 14. The date of Knoedler's purchase is unclear. According to Knoedler's stockbook, the company acquired the painting on 2 April 1900 and sold it to Clark on 10 April of the same year. However, the Knoedler record also notes that the painting was purchased at the American Art Association sale which was on 10 April 1900. According to Arthur Hoeber, The Barbizon Painters: Being the Story of the Men of Thirty, New York, 1915: 133, the work was still in Knoedler's possession at the time of publication.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1879
Wilhelm Shaus Gallery, New York, Fall 1879.
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. 1, repro.
Bibliography
1915
Hoeber, Arthur. The Barbizon Painters. New York, 1915: repro. opposite 132.
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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 115.
Inscriptions
lower left: N. Diaz -76-
Wikidata ID
Q46630376