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Boat on the River's Edge

Artist Charles François Daubigny French, 1817–1878

Date1871

MediumOil on cradled panel

Dimensions13 1/2 × 23 × 3/4 in. (34.3 × 58.4 × 1.9 cm)
frame: 20 1/2 × 30 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (52.1 × 76.5 × 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of Joan Huntley

Object number2021.15.4

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated France, 1871. Henry C. Gibson (1830–1891), Philadelphia; bequeathed to Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, Philadelphia, 1892; [Sotheby’s, New York, October 28, 1986, no. 20]; private collection, Germany; [Christie’s, New York, May 2, 2001, no. 90]. [Thomas Colville Fine Art, Trumbull, Connecticut]. Private collection, California. [Schiller & Bodo European Paintings, New York, until 2013]; Dr. Joan Huntley, Chapel Hill, NC, 2013; bequeathed to NCMA, 2019.Published ReferencesEdward Strahan, ed., The Art Treasures of America being the Choicest Works of Art in thePublic and Private Collections of North America (Philadelphia, 1879–1882), vol. I, 80, as View on the Seine.

Daubigny (Paris: Geoffroy-Dechaume, 1975), 178, no. 122.

Robert Hellebranth, Charles-François Daubigny, 1817–1878, catalogue raisonné (Morges: Editions Matute, 1976), 265 no. 802, illus.

Gabriel P. Weisberg, Millet and his Barbizon Contemporaries (exhibition catalogue) (Tokyo: Art Life Ltd., 1985), cat. no. 53, illus., as Landscape.

“Important 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors” (auction catalogue) (New York: Sotheby’s, October 28, 1986), lot 20.

“19th Century European Art” (auction catalogue) (New York: Christie’s, May 2, 2001), lot 90.
Exhibition HistoryMillet and his Barbizon Contemporaries (1985), cat. no. 53: Tokyo, Keio Department Store

Osaka, The Hanshin Department Store

Miyazaki City, The Miyazaki Prefectural Institution

Fukushima, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art

Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
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