River Boat

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1860

Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Charles François Daubigny
Title: River Boat
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1855–1865
Medium: Oil on board
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left: Vente Daubigny
Dimensions: 21.2 × 45.4 cm (8 3/8 × 17 7/8 in.); Framed: 37.5 × 62.3 × 3.9 cm (14 3/4 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland
Reference Number: 1968.89
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John Rewald, “Pissarro and His Circle,” Art News 44 (October 15–31, 1945), pp. 17–18 (ill.).
John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (New York, 1946), p. 91 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1967–68 (Chicago, 1968), p. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (unpublished typescript, 1971), p. 24.
Robert Hellebranth, Charles-François Daubigny, 1817–1878 (Morges, Switzerland, 1976), p. 224, no. 675.
Clarke, Michael. 2015. “Tales of the Riverbank: Daubigny’s River Scenes,” In Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape, pp. 65-78 (p. 69, fig. 58 ill.), Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

New York, Wildenstein and Company, Camille Pissarro: His Place in Art, October 24–November 24, 1945, cat. 55.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft Museum of Art, Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscapes, Feb. 19-May 29, 2016, fig. 58; traveled to the Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Scottish National Gallery, June 25-October 2, 2016, and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Oct. 21, 2016-Jan. 29, 2017.

In the possession of the artist, Charles François Daubigny (died 1878); sold, his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6, 1878, lot 172, as Remorqueur près du Havre. Robert Churchill Vose and Nathaniel Morton Vose, Boston, by 1917; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, April 4, 1917, lot 91, as French Tug-Boat, for $280 to Francis Ralston Welsh, Devon, Penn. [American Art Association record book for 1917]; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 26, 1938, lot 500 to Hannah D. Rabinowitz [according to Sotheby’s fax dated September 16, 2003, in curatorial file]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, March 1, 1945, lot 126, to Fine Arts Associates [according to Sotheby’s fax cited above]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by October 1945 [see New York 1945 exh. cat.]. John J. Ireland (died 1968), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.

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