Ile-de-Vaux on the Oise near Auvers

Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)

1876

Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions40.6 x 68.6 cm (16 x 27 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Mrs. David P. Kimball

Accession number23.400

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ClassificationsPaintings

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Europe

InscriptionsLower left: Daubigny 1876ProvenanceMay 12, 1883, purchased by Goupil et Cie., Paris; March 18, 1885, sold by Goupil to Galerie Georges Petit, Paris [see note 1]; September 25, 1885, sold by Georges Petit to M. Knoedler and Co., New York (stock no. 4919); April 13, 1886, sold by Knoedler to J. Eastman Chase Gallery, Boston [see note 2], for Clara Bertram Kimball (b. 1838 - d. 1920), Boston; by inheritance to her husband, David P. Kimball (b. 1833 - d. 1923), Boston; 1923, bequest of Mrs. David P. Kimball to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 6, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] Getty Provenance Index, Goupil et Cie. Records, PI record G-25666 (stock book 11, no. 16605, p. 75). [2] This information comes from a letter from Lelia Wittler of Knoedler and Co. to Charles C. Cunningham of the MFA (March 6, 1941; in MFA curatorial file). Also see Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI record K-10075 (stock book 4, no. 4919, p. 42). www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance

On the reverse of the painting, in pencil, is a number identified by former curator Charles C. Cunningham as possibly the mark of Samuel Putnam Avery (b. 1822 - d. 1904), a New York art dealer. It is not known for certain whether his gallery is associated with this stock number, or whether it played a role in the importation and sale of this painting. Another mark on the reverse is tentatively identified as coming from Vose Galleries, Boston, but this has not been verified.