Italian Hill Town

Jean Achille Benouville (French (Paris), 1815–1891)

about 1845

Medium/TechniqueOil on paper mounted on canvas

Dimensions14.6 x 28 cm (5 3/4 x 11 in.)

Credit LineGift of Edward Jackson Holmes

Accession number41.120

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenancePossibly by 1884, Thomas Wigglesworth (b. 1814 - d. 1906 or 1907), Boston [see note 1]; March 30, 1900, probably Wigglesworth sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, lot 34, unsold; by descent to his niece, Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth (Mrs. W. Scott Fitz) (b. 1847 - d. 1927), Boston; by descent to her son, Edward Jackson Holmes (b. 1873 - d. 1950), Boston; 1941, gift of Edward Jackson Holmes to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: March 13, 1941)

NOTES:
[1] Formerly attributed to Corot, this may have been lent by Thomas Wigglesworth to the Boston Art Club in 1884, according to notes in the MFA curatorial file.