On the Cliff

Constant Troyon (French, 1810–1865)

Medium/TechniqueOil on paperboard

Dimensions25.7 x 39.1 cm (10 1/8 x 15 3/8 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson

Accession number35.1179

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsStamped, lower left: V E N T E / T R O Y O N

ProvenanceJanuary 22 - February 1, 1866, posthumous Troyon sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris [see note 1]. 1886, sold by Charles Leroux (b. 1814 - d. 1895), Nantes, France, to Boussod, Valadon, et Cie., Paris and New York (stock no. 17964); July 27, 1886, sold by Boussod, Valadon et Cie. to G. Reichard and Co., New York [see note 2]. Henry Lee Higginson (b. 1834 - d. 1919), Boston; by inheritance to his wife, Ida Agassiz Higginson (b. 1837 - d. 1935), Boston; 1935, bequest of Ida Agassiz Higginson to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 11, 1935)

NOTES:
[1] The painting bears a "Vente Troyon" stamp; however, many of the artist's oil studies were grouped together in the sale, and it is unknown which lot included the present work. [2] Getty Provenance Research Index, Goupil et Cie. Records, PI Record No. G-27028 (stock book 11, no. 17964, p. 166), as "Les falaises."