Evening at Saint-Privé

Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819–1916)

1890

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions73.7 x 54.6 cm (29 x 21 1/2 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow

Accession number23.486

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ClassificationsPaintings

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Europe

InscriptionsLower left: hjharpignies 90.ProvenanceMay 24, 1901, sold by Obach and Co., London, to M. Knoedler and Co., London and New York (stock no. 9461); February 12, 1903, sold by Knoedler to Morris J. Hirsch, London; May 12, 1903, sold by Hirsch to Knoedler (stock no. 10284); March 17, 1904, sold by Knoedler to Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1845 - d. 1921), Boston [see note 1]; 1923, bequest of Longfellow to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] Information about the Knoedler transactions is taken from the Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. records, PI numbers K-17446 and K-11657 (stock book 5, no. 9461, p. 45 and no. 10284, p. 85). www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance