The Marsh

1840

Constant Troyon
French, 1810-1865

Status: On View, Gallery 222
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Constant Troyon
Title: The Marsh
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1840
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: C. Troyon Inscribed on inside of original frame: Mr. Levaigneur 1840
Dimensions: 93 × 140 cm (36 1/2 × 55 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by David and Mary Winton Green
Reference Number: 1996.649
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Louis Soullié, Peintures, pastels, dessins de Constant Troyon, Librairies Spéciales des Catalogues de vente, Paris, 1900, p. 10. ?
Gloria Groom, “The Marsh,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1, pp. 64-65 (color ills.).

Chicago, Art Institute, Troyon’s “The Marsh,” May 9–August 2, 1998, no cat.

Mme. Lavaigneur collection, probably by 1840 [inscribed on the inside of original frame: Mr. Levaigneur 1840]; her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 2, 1912, lot 19 (ill.); sold to Lemaréchal for 24,100 Francs [acc. to Gazette de Hôtel Drouot (May 4, 1912)]. Robert Hellebranth, Paris. Galerie Koller’s Sale, Zurich, November 11, 1981, lot 5047 (ill. 61); private collection; Sotheby’s Sale, London, June 12, 1996, lot 44 (ill.). Stair Sainty Matthiesen Inc., New York, 1996; sold to the Art Institute, 1996.

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