The Road to Market

1858/59

Constant Troyon
French, 1810-1865

On View: European Painting and Sculpture, Gallery 222

Artist: Constant Troyon
Title: The Road to Market
Origin: France
Date: 1858–1859
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: C Troyon
Dimensions: 92 × 73.4 cm (36 1/4 × 28 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Henry Field Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1894.1068

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Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, Fine Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decoration, 1893, cat. 2983.

E. Gaillard, Paris, by 1867; his sale for 7,000 francs [sale according to Narischkine sale catalogue, cited below; price according to Souillé 1900]. B. Narischkine, Paris, by 1883; his sale, Galerie George Petit, April 5, 1883, lot 83 as La Route du marché for 42,500 francs to Arnold & Tripp [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; Arnold & Tripp, Paris. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

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