Children Feeding Geese

Julien Dupré (French, 1851–1910)

1881

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions81.6 x 65.1 cm (32 1/8 x 25 5/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Miss Louisa W. and Miss Marian R. Case

Accession number20.1865

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InscriptionsLower left: Julien Dupre 1881ProvenanceMarch 4, 1881, sold by Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, to M. Knoedler and Co., Paris and New York (stock no. 3217); April 12, 1881, sold by Knoedler to Noyes and Blakeslee, Boston [see note 1]; May 3-4, 1882, Noyes and Blakeslee sale, Boston, lot 65. By 1884, William F. Johnson, Boston [see note 2]. Louisa W. Case (1862-1946) and Marian R. Case (1864-1944), Weston; 1920, gift of Misses Louisa W. and Marian R. Case to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 1920)

NOTES:
[1] Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI Record No. K-1206 (stock book 3, no. 3217, p. 142), as "Gardeuse d'oies." The Knoedler stock number remains on the reverse of the painting.
[2] He lent this painting to the Fifteenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Assocation, Fine Arts Division (September-October, 1884), cat. no. 53, as "Feeding the Geese."