Village by the Sea in Brittany

c. 1880

Odilon Redon

Artist, French, 1840 - 1916

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 91

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on cardboard on hardboard

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 25.08 × 32.39 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
    framed: 37.15 × 44.45 × 3.81 cm (14 5/8 × 17 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.89.7

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Wildenstein and Co., New York); purchased by 1966 by Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no. 79, repro.

2013

  • Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016, pl. 24.

Bibliography

1992

  • Wildenstein, Alec. Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Volume III, Fleurs et paysages. 4 vols. Paris, 1992-1998: 3(1996): 289, no. 1853.

Inscriptions

lower right: ODILON REDON

Wikidata ID

Q20188874

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