Woman in Breton Costume Seated in a Meadow

Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (French, 1852–1929)

1887

Country of Origin, for CustomsFrance

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions41.6 x 32.4 cm (16 3/8 x 12 3/4 in.)

Credit LineBequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball

Accession number23.527

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsLower right: P A J DAGNAN-B 1887

ProvenanceDecember 5, 1887, purchased by Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris; July 3, 1889 or September 19, 1889, sold by Boussod, Valadon et Cie. to M. Knoedler and Co., New York (stock no. 6303); October 28, 1889, sold by Knoedler to J. Eastman Chase Gallery, Boston [see note 1], probably 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 David P. Kimball to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] As "Bretonne de Face." Getty Provenance Index, Goupil et Cie. Records, PI record no. G-28389 (stock book 12, no. 18898, p. 43), which gives a sale date to Knoedler of July 3, 1889; and M. Knoedler and Co. Records, PI record no K-9982 (stock book 4, no. 6303, p. 116), which gives a purchase date from Boussod, Valadon et Cie. of September 19, 1889. [2] David P. Kimball bequeathed forty paintings to the MFA in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball. He noted in his will that these were "from the collection made by her and bequeathed to me."