Cows and Sheep under Trees

c. 1850

Constant Troyon

Artist, French, 1810 - 1865

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal and white chalk with touches of red chalk on blue-gray laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.1 x 31.7 cm (8 5/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.238

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Artist's atelier (Lugt 642)(estate sale, Paris, 22 January-1 February 1866); unidentified collector (stamp in black ink, C.T., not in Lugt); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 120-121, no. 49 (entry by Margaret Doyle).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in pen and black ink: [C.L.?]; by later hand, bottom center verso in graphite: [Troyon]; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 962; by later hand, bottom right verso in graphite: 132; by later hand, bottom right verso in graphite: (sideways) RK

Markings

estate mark in red ink: CT. (Lugt 642); unidentified collector's mark in black ink at lower right: C.L. (not in Lugt).

Watermarks

crowned shield with script initials

Wikidata ID

Q64540351

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