Washerwomen at the Oise River near Valmondois
1865
Artist, French, 1817 - 1878
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 92
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 24 x 46 cm (9 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
framed: 42.9 x 63.8 x 8.9 cm (16 7/8 x 25 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1949.1.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Descamps-Scrive de Lille collection. (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris); sold to Meyer Goodfriend, New York;[1] (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 4 January 1923, no. 71); purchased by A.A. Aron, New York; sold 5 January 1923 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[2] sold before 1941 to R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York;[3] gift 1949 to NGA.
[1] According to Goodfriend sales catalogue of 4 January 1923.
[2] According to the Getty Provenance Index, citing Knoedler's records, Aron sold the painting to Knoedler's on the day following the American Art Association's Goodfriend sale. It is possible he purchased the painting on Knoedler's behalf; press reports and annotated sales catalogue list Knoedler as the purchaser.
[3] Gallatin owned the painting by 1941 when he made the initial offer of his collection to the National Gallery of Art, which was accepted on an "if and when" basis; see NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
Opening exhibition and loan for display with permanent collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1968-1969, no cat.
1969
Loan for display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts. St. Petersburg, Florida, 1969-1970.
1999
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 9, repro., as Landscape with Figures.
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
2011
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 2011, not in catalogue (shown only in Tokyo and Kyoto).
Bibliography
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 36.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 29, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 92, repro.
1976
Hellebranth, Robert. Charles-François Daubigny, 1817-1878. Morges, 1976: 64, no. 173, repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 112, repro.
2000
Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 148-150, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: Daubigny 1865
Wikidata ID
Q20188672