Meadows and Low Hills

Antoine Vollon (French, 1833–1900)

1867–69

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions27.9 x 46.0 cm (11 x 18 1/8 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow

Accession number37.602

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsLower right: A VProvenanceWith Goupil and Co., New York (dates of ownership not established) [see note 1]. Until 1916, possibly William Merritt Chase (b. 1849 - d. 1916), New York; May 16, 1917, posthumous Chase sale, American Art Association, New York, possibly lot 218 [see note 2]. Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1845 - d. 1921), Boston; 1937, bequest of Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 12, 1937)

NOTES:
[1] Notes in the MFA curatorial file identify a label on the back as coming from Goupil, New York. [2] The MFA painting may be identical with the panel by Vollon entitled "Landscape" that was sold at this sale. Its dimensions are the same and the artist's initials are also at the lower right. The painting in the Chase sale is described as follows: "Beyond a broad and deep foreground of gently rolling lush meadows, red-roofed French farm houses nestle among trees of dense foliage or glisten in the sunshine, at the foot of a range of low hills that with woodland, cultivated fields and small, detached trees, yield a varied but nearly even skyline against masses of gray vaporous clouds."