The Willows, 1864

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Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 45.09 × 81.28 cm (17 3/4 × 32 in.)

framed: 78.11 × 114.62 × 11.43 cm (30 3/4 × 45 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.143.10

Artists / Makers

Charles-François Daubigny (painter) French, 1817 - 1878

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Inscription

lower right: Daubigny, 1864

Provenance

(Arnold & Tripp, Paris).[1] Francis Aquila Stout [1833-1892], Paris and New York; his wife, Emily M.R. Stout [1863-1940, née Emily Meredith Read, later Emily M.R. Stout Spencer or Mrs. Edwards Spencer], New York; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by December 1910; purchased April 1911 by Matthew Challoner Durfee Borden [1842-1912], Fall River, Massachusetts;[2] (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 13-14 February 1913, no. 63); 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 provenance given by Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, Part I, Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 183, no. 200, lists the first three owners of the painting as Stout, then Tripp, then Spencer. However, since Emily Spencer was first married to Francis Stout from 1884 until his death in 1892, it is more likely that Stout acquired the painting from Tripp and it was then inherited by his widow, who married Edwards Spencer in 1894.

[2] See 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 210, painting is stock number 12240.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Arnold & Tripp
Borden, Matthew Challoner Durfee
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Knoedler & Company, M.
Spencer, Emily Meredith Read
Stout, Francis Aquila

Exhibition History

1975: American Art in the Barbizon Mood, National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 23 January - 20 April 1975, no. 4, repro.

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue.

2011: A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 15 October 2011 - 20 February 2012, no catalogue.

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): 183, no. 200.

1976: Hellebranth, Robert. Charles-François Daubigny, 1817-1878. Morges, 1976: 257, no. 775, repro.