Equihen on the Cliff: Low Tide
c. 1876/1890
Painter, French, 1841 - 1901
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 55.88 × 71.12 cm (22 × 28 in.)
framed: 95.25 × 109.86 × 16.51 cm (37 1/2 × 43 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.22
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
American Art Association, New York; (sale, American Art Association, at Chickering Hall, New York, 10 April 1900, no. 28, as Low Tide);[1] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York);[2] purchased April 1900 by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The sale featured mostly paintings from the collection of Frederic Bonner (1856-1911), "with additions by the American Art Association." This painting was one of those owned by the Association.
[2] The painting is stock number 9169 in the M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 5, 8800-12652, 1899 April-1911 December, page 23 of the stockbook.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1920
Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Honorable William A. Clark, Lotus Club, New York, 1920, no. 49.
1971
Loan to display with the permanent collection, Renwick Gallery, Washington, 1971.
1983
La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 33, repro.
1990
Illuminations: Images of Landscape in France, 1855-1885, Heckscher Museum, Huntington; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 10 March - 10 November 1990, no. 18, repro.
2010
From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, 6 March - 29 June 2010, no. 65, repro.
Bibliography
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 117, no. 36.
Inscriptions
lower left: J. C. Cazin
Wikidata ID
Q46630347