Brittany Landscape

1888

Paul Gauguin

Painter, French, 1848 - 1903

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • 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

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