Brittany Landscape
1888
Painter, French, 1848 - 1903
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 71.1 x 89.5 cm (28 x 35 1/4 in.)
framed: 91.4 x 115.6 cm (36 x 45 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1963.10.148
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Claude Émile Schuffenecker [1851-1934], Paris. [1] (Galerie Joseph Allard, Paris); sold 4 June 1926 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.[2]
[1] Claude Emile Schuffenecker was a friend and early collector of Gauguin. Due to his divorce that was finalized in 1904, he sold his collection of over 100 works by Gauguin, van Gogh, and others to his brother Amédée in the hopes that the collection would remain in tact. Amédée, however, was just starting out as a dealer and sold many of the works. (See Sophie Monneret, Impressionnisme et son époque, Paris, 1978: 2:333 and Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Exh. cat., University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton and Hammer Galleries, 1980: 29). This picture is likely among those that passed between the brothers. In 1908 it was exhibited at the Kunstsalon W. Zimmermann in Munich, probably for sale; Amédée often sold through the German art market.
[2] Date and source of Chester Dale's acquisition according to his papers in NGA curatorial records.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1908
Probably V. Van Gogh and P. Gauguin, Kunstsalon W. Zimmermann, Munich, March-April 1908, no. 19.
1928
Loan Exhibition of Modern French Art from the Chester Dale Collection for the Benefit of the French Hospital of New York, Wildenstein Galleries, 1928, no. 11
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
2010
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
1929
Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 60, repro.
1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 73, repro.
Jewell, Edward Alden. "New Art Display by Chester Dale," The New York Times (11 April 1942):
Poe, Elisabeth E. "Gallery Shows 41 Paintings In Chester Dale Collection," Washington Times-Herald (12 April 1942):
"The Golden Years of France," Magazine of Art 35 (May 1942): 179.
1944
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 73, repro.
1953
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 84, repro.
1956
Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 47 (January-April 1956): 141, repro.
1957
Goldwater, Robert. Paul Gauguin. New York, 1957: 116, repro.
1958
Wildenstein, Georges. Gauguin: Sa vie, son oeuvre. Réunion de textes, d'études, de documents. Paris, 1958: 141, repro.
1963
Boudaille, Georges. Gauguin. Paris, 1963: repro. 48.
1964
Wildenstein, Georges. Gauguin. 2 vols. Paris, 1964: supplement no. 12, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 55.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 121, repro.
1966
Bodelsen, Marete. "The Wildenstein-Cogniat Gauguin Catalogue." The Burlington Magazine 108, no. 754 (January 1966): 30.
1967
Blanton, Catherine W. "Notes on a Portrait by Gauguin in the Chester Dale Collection." Studies in the History of Art 1 (1967-68): 89-98, fig. 5
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 48, repro.
1972
Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'ouevre peint de Gauguin. Milan, 1972: no. 74, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 146, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: repro. 528.
1977
Field, Richard S. Paul Gauguin: The Paintings of the First Voyage to Tahiti. New York, 1977: 154-157.
1981
Sugana, Gabriele Mandel. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Gauguin. Paris, 1981: no. 74, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 524, no. 787, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 168, repro.
1997
Kropmanns, Peter. Gauguin und die Schule von Pont-Aven im Deutschland nach der Jahrhundertwende. Sigmaringen, 1997:40, 91, note 128.
2001
Wildenstein, Daniel. Gauguin: Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage. Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888). 2 vols. Paris, 2001: 2:no. 270, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: P. Gauguin 88
Wikidata ID
Q20189915