Returning from the Pasture: Evening, n.d.

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 39.37 × 69.85 cm (15 1/2 × 27 1/2 in.)

framed: 70.17 × 101.28 × 10.16 cm (27 5/8 × 39 7/8 × 4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.143.15

Artists / Makers

Anton Mauve (painter) Dutch, 1838 - 1888

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Inscription

lower right: A. Mauve

Provenance

Private collection, Scotland. (Boussod, Valadon et Cie, London);[1] sold 20 May 1896 to (M. Knoedler & Co.);[2] purchased 6 July 1896 by John W. Kauffman, St. Louis;[3] (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3 February 1905, no. 42); 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 early provenance is according to Knoedler's records. See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook 4, 4369-8799, 1883 April-1899 April, page 212, stock number 8075.

[2] Knoedler is listed as the prior owner in the 1905 Kauffman sales catalogue.

[3] The painting was sold as part of a pair. See M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Sales Book 7, 1892 July-1900 October, page 153.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Boussod et Valadon
Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kauffman, John Wesley
Knoedler & Company, M.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

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 Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 168, no. 159.