Provenance

Dr. George Viau

French, 1855 - 1939

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Camille Pissarro, A Bather, 1894, monotype on wove paper, Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, 1977.70.2

A Bather

Camille Pissarro · 1894 · monotype on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1977.70.2

Moss-green land rising to a tree-topped bluff follows the curve of a sandy beach surrounding a pale blue cove in this horizontal landscape painting. The hill and olive-green trees take up most of the height of the left side of the composition. The beach curves from the lower right corner back and to our left, and curves around the cliff face of the bluff. Closest to us, the land is flecked with saffron gold, and two dark brown patches smear the sand. The beach or a sandbar creates a strip of pale brown across the horizon, which comes halfway up the canvas. Distant hills to our left are suggested by a battleship-gray slope. The slate-blue sky above is layered with swirls and bands of oyster-white and pewter-gray clouds. The artist signed the lower left, “COROT.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Beach near Etretat, c. 1872, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.117

Beach near Etretat

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · c. 1872 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.117

A pale, nearly nude woman with dark hair sits on a mossy rock, holding an archer's bow, with a dead deer at her feet in this vertical painting. Her body is angled to our left and she looks down toward the animal with dark eyes. Her hair is pulled up, and her pale pink lips are closed. She is covered only by a light, celery-green cloth and rose-pink ribbon across her hips. She has full, round breasts and curving belly, hips, and thighs. The deer’s legs face the woman as it lies on the ground, but its head is pulled back at a dramatic angle into the lower left corner, seeping blood from the mouth and from a slash across its neck. A quiver of arrows lies to the woman’s right, farther from us, on the moss-covered rock on which she is seated. More boulders behind her create the impression of hills, nearly filling the composition. Trees grow up against a corner of pale blue sky above.
Auguste Renoir, Diana, 1867, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.205

Diana

Auguste Renoir · 1867 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.205

Edgar Degas, Study of a Jockey (M. de Broutelles), c. 1884, black crayon on cream paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1999.79.13

Study of a Jockey (M. de Broutelles)

Edgar Degas · c. 1884 · black crayon on cream paper ·  Accession ID  1999.79.13

Edgar Degas, The Loge, c. 1883, oil on wood, Gift of Emily M. Wilson in memory of Anthony T. Wilson, 1980.5.1

The Loge

Edgar Degas · c. 1883 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1980.5.1

Anonymous Artist, Hippolyte Lavoignat, c. 1860, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.117

Hippolyte Lavoignat

Anonymous Artist · c. 1860 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.117

Antoine-Jean Gros, Dr. Vignardonne, 1827, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.154

Dr. Vignardonne

Antoine-Jean Gros · 1827 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.154

Bibliography

1925

  • George, Waldemar. "La Collection Viau: I." L'Amour de l'art 6 (1925):362-374.

1995

  • Cezanne. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1995:574