Hunting in the Pontine Marshes
1833
Artist, French, 1789 - 1863


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 93
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 100 × 137 cm (39 3/8 × 53 15/16 in.)
framed: 136.53 × 173.36 × 16.51 cm (53 3/4 × 68 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1989.3.1
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Pierre-Hippolyte Aumont [d. 1865], by 1846.[1] Probably (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 May 1870, no. 4, as Chasse dans les marais Pontins).[2] (sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 12 December 1988, no. 78); purchased 18 January 1989 by NGA.
[1] In a Paris sale, Tableaux modernes provenant en partie de la collection de M. D***, 29 March 1862, a painting by Horace Vernet, Chase au marais, figured under no. 53. The dimensions, given as 51 x 41 cm, are so much smaller than those of the picture in the NGA that a confusion with it seems not possible. The painting was lent by Aumont to the 1846 exhibition at the Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle.
[2] This sale reference did not appear in the NGA's systematic catalogue entry on the painting (Lorenz Eitner, French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Part I: Before Impressionism, New York and Oxford, 2000: 352-355), at which time the location of the painting's pendant, Departure for the Hunt in the Pontine Marshes, was not known. When the pendant appeared at auction in 2003 (it was subsequently purchased by the NGA and is now 2004.38.1), the sale catalogue cited Bruno Chenique's suggestion that NGA 1989.3.1 and NGA 2004.38.1 were lot numbers 4 and 5 in this 1870 sale.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1846
Exposition au profit de l'Association des Artistes, Peintres, et Sculpteurs, Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle, Paris, 1846, no. 70.
1999
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 1, repro.
2003
Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics, Tate Britain, London; Minneapolis Inst. of Arts; Met. Mus. of Art, New York, 2003-2004, no. 93 (U.S. title: Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism).
Bibliography
1995
Fondation Taylor. Le Baron Taylor, L'Association des artistes et l'exposition du Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle en 1846. Paris, 1995: 35, fig. 87, 283.
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: 352-355, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: H. Vernet / Rome 1833 [or Roma?]
Wikidata ID
Q20185781