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Conservation Status: After Treatment
At the Fountain
Conservation Status: After Treatment

At the Fountain

Joseph Bail (French, 1862–1921)
1880s
Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions73.7 x 59.7 cm (29 x 23 1/2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow
Accession number23.465
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower right: Bail JosephProvenance1908, Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, New York, and Paris [see note 1]; 1908, sold by Tooth to Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1845 - d. 1921), Boston; 1923, bequeathed by Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] probably Tooth New York stock no. 4086 (in New York Sales By Day, Vol. 35, January 4, 1908)
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