Bathers by a Giant Oak

c. 1842/1844

Constant Troyon

Artist, French, 1810 - 1865

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal with stumping and erasing, black chalk, and oil paint, with touches of white chalk, on tan wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 66.8 x 51.8 cm (26 5/16 x 20 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.128.33

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Seiferheld and Co., New York); purchased by Christian Humann, 1968; The Christian Humann Foundation, Paris, 1981; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1972

  • The Forest of Fontainbleau, Refuge and Reality. Shepherd Gallery, New York, April-June 1972, no. 25.

1977

  • From Delacroix to Cezanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century. University of Maryland, College Park, and Louisville, KY, 1977, no. 157.

1980

  • Millet, Corot and the School of Barbizon, The Seibu Museum, Tokyo and tour, 1980, no. D.41.

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 12.

Inscriptions

lower left in black chalk: CT

Wikidata ID

Q64540349

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