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Garlic Seller

Garlic Seller

(French, 1850–1924)
about 1880
Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance
Medium/TechniqueOil on paper mounted and extended on canvas
Dimensions71.8 x 48.9 cm (28 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)
Credit LineThe Henry C. and Martha B. Angell Collection
Accession number19.103
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower right: J.F. R A F F A ELLI
ProvenanceBy 1881, Albert Wolff (b. 1835 - d. 1891), Paris [see note 1]; October 5, 1889, possibly sold by Albert Wolff to Goupil et Cie., Paris and New York (stock no. 20,080); possibly sold by Goupil to John G. Johnson (b. 1841 - d. 1917), Philadelphia [see note 2]. By 1895, acquired in exchange from Hazelton (dealer), Philadelphia, by Henry Clay Angell (b. 1829 - d. 1911), Boston; 1911, by inheritance to his widow, Martha Bartlett Angell (b. 1833 - d. 1919), Boston; 1916, gift of Martha Bartlett Angell to the MFA; 1919, upon Mrs. Angell's death, accessioned fully by the MFA. (Accession Dates: October 19, 1916 and March 20, 1919)

NOTES:
[1] Lent by Wolff to the Sixth Impressionist Exposition, 1881, no. 96, as "Marchand d'ails et d'echalotes." [2] Possibly the Raffaelli painting titled "Un Marchand" measuring 20 1/2 x 9 [sic?] inches, purchased from Wolff in 1889 and subsequently sold to Johnson. Getty Provenance Index, Goupil et Cie. Records, Stock Book 12, no. 20080, p. 121.