The Monastery, before 1893

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Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 33.02 × 45.72 cm (13 × 18 in.)

framed: 47.31 × 60.33 × 5.72 cm (18 5/8 × 23 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.143.4

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, by 1893;[1] (sale, American Art Association, New York, 10 April 1900, no. 3); (M. Knoedler and Co., New York);[2] 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 painting was included in an 1893 exhibition at the American Art Galleries, managed by the American Art Association, where it was also for sale.

[2] The painting is stock number 9168 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. It appears from the stockbook that Knoedler might have been buying for Clark at the sale.

Associated Names

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

Exhibition History

1893: Catalogue of Paintings by Jean-Charles Cazin [Special Exhibition: Works of J.-Ch. Cazin], American Art Galleries, New York, 1893, no. 15.

1920: Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Honorable William A. Clark, Lotus Club, New York, 1920, no. 53.

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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 122, no. 48.