Equihen on the Cliff: Low Tide, c. 1876/1890

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Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.22

Artists / Makers

Jean-Charles Cazin (painter) French, 1841 - 1901

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Inscription

lower left: J. C. Cazin

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

American Art Association
American Art Association
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Knoedler & Company, M.

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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 117, no. 36.