Constant Troyon

French, 1810 - 1865

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Descent from Montmartre

Constant Troyon · 1850s · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.51

Constant Troyon, River Bank with Cattle, probably after 1850, black and white chalk on blue wove paper, Julius S. Held Collection, 1985.1.59

River Bank with Cattle

Constant Troyon · probably after 1850 · black and white chalk on blue wove paper ·  Accession ID  1985.1.59

Dark, nickel-gray clouds encircle a spot of bright blue sky above a river and forest in this horizontal landscape painting. The tops of the clouds are creamy white in the sunlight and steel gray beneath. The horizon comes about a third of the way up the painting, and on the land below, a tall, deep green, leafy tree nearly reaches the top edge of the painting to our right of center. More trees cluster around it on a spit of land that runs along an olive-green body of water. Along the shoreline, across from us, several wooden rowboats have pulled up to a low dock. One person holding a tall, thin rod sits in one of the boats. A woman and child walk toward the boat, away from another pair of people under the trees. The woman with the child looks over her shoulder toward the clouds. On our side of the water, a man, also with a tall rod, climbs onto a dock in the lower left corner. Flat meadows meet rolling hills in the deep distance, beneath streaks in the clouds above, perhaps falling rain far away. The artist signed and dated the painting with red in the lower left corner: “C. TROYON 1849.”
Constant Troyon, The Approaching Storm, 1849, oil on canvas on board, Chester Dale Fund, 1995.42.1

The Approaching Storm

Constant Troyon · 1849 · oil on canvas on board ·  Accession ID  1995.42.1

Constant Troyon, A Windmill against a Cloudy Sky, 1845/1850, oil paint and black chalk over charcoal on tan paper, Andrea Woodner Fund, 2007.57.1

A Windmill against a Cloudy Sky

Constant Troyon · 1845/1850 · oil paint and black chalk over charcoal on tan paper ·  Accession ID  2007.57.1

Constant Troyon, Cows and Sheep under Trees, c. 1850, charcoal and white chalk with touches of red chalk on blue-gray laid paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009.70.238

Cows and Sheep under Trees

Constant Troyon · c. 1850 · charcoal and white chalk with touches of red chalk on blue-gray laid paper ·  Accession ID  2009.70.238

Constant Troyon, Bathers by a Giant Oak, c. 1842/1844, charcoal with stumping and erasing, black chalk, and oil paint, with touches of white chalk, on tan wove paper, Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation, 1996.128.33

Bathers by a Giant Oak

Constant Troyon · c. 1842/1844 · charcoal with stumping and erasing, black chalk, and oil paint, with touches of white chalk, on tan wove paper ·  Accession ID  1996.128.33

Constant Troyon, Landscape with Figures, mid 19th century, oil on wood, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.50

Landscape with Figures

Constant Troyon · mid 19th century · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.136.50

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The Watering Place

Constant Troyon · mid 19th century · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  2014.136.49

Maxime Lalanne, Le Gué (The Ford), 1873, etching on laid paper, Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend, 2021.113.33

Le Gué (The Ford)

Maxime Lalanne · 1873 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2021.113.33

Maxime Lalanne, Alfred Salmon, Vaches sous Bois (Cattle in the Forest), 1872, etching on laid paper, Gift of Carol and James Goodfriend, 2021.113.29

Vaches sous Bois (Cattle in the Forest)

Maxime Lalanne, Alfred Salmon · 1872 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2021.113.29

Bibliography

1876

  • Blanc, Charles. Les Artistes de mon temps. Paris, 1876: 313-323.

1888

  • Dumesnil, Henri. Troyon, souvenirs intimes. Paris, 1888.

1900

  • Soullié, Louis. Les Grands Peintres aux ventes publiques. Vol. I, Peintures, pastels, aquarelles, dessins de Constant Troyon...relevés dans les catalogues de vente de 1883 à 1900. Paris, 1900.

1906

  • Gensel, Walter. Corot und Troyon. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1906.

2000

  • Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 342-343.