The Flag of Truce, 1884

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Medium

gouache on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 65.41 × 91.12 cm (25 3/4 × 35 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.40

Artists / Makers

Alphonse de Neuville (painter) French, 1835 - 1885

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Inscription

lower left: A. de Neuville 1884.

Provenance

Possibly (artist's sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6 May 1886, no. 212).[1] Pitet Ainé, Paris, as Parlementaire;[2] sold 5 August 1886 to (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); purchased 2 November 1886 by Thomas E. Waggaman [1839-1906], Washington;[3] (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 25 January 1905, no. 42, as The Flag of Truce); William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York;[4] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Three works titled Parlementaire are listed in the artist's sale. The first, number 1, has similar dimensions to the painting now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Number 190, a watercolor with the dimensions 0m83 x 1m20, belongs to the Musée de l'Armée, Paris. The third, number 212 is a drawing without dimensions and is described as "Projet de composition pour le tableau: le Parlementair."

[2] According to M. Knoedler and Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 4, 4369-8799, 1883 April-1899 April, page 57, stock number 5228.

[3] See note 2 for the source of the date Knoedler sold the painting.

[4] Charles L. Bernheimer, Paris, is identified as a possible previous owner in 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Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, Part I, Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 156, no. 126.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Knoedler & Company, M.
Pitet ainé Paris
Waggaman, Thomas E.

Exhibition History

1885: Exposition des oeuvres d'Alphonse de Neuville, Salon, Paris, 1885.

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. 35, 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): 156, no. 126.