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Two Wood Gatherers near the Pool of Vipers, Fontainebleau
Two Wood Gatherers near the Pool of Vipers, Fontainebleau

Two Wood Gatherers near the Pool of Vipers, Fontainebleau

Artist Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña French, 1807–1876
Date1863–1864
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions22 1/4 × 30 3/4 × 1 in. (56.5 × 78.1 × 2.5 cm)
frame: 36 × 44 1/2 in. (91.4 × 113 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of Joan Huntley
Object number2021.15.5
On View
On view
ProvenanceCreated France, 1864. [Galerie Boussod-Valadon & Allard, Paris, no. 0520, cl.11730, before 1919] [1]. Arnold / Constable Family Collection, New York City, until ca. 2000; Jack McAuliffe, New York; [Schiller & Bodo European Paintings, New York, until 2010]; Dr. Joan Huntley, Chapel Hill, NC, 2010; bequeathed to NCMA, 2019.

[1] Boussod et Valadon ceased operations in 1919, and the collections were dispersed at auction at Galerie Georges Petit. The present work does not appear in the Boussod Sale, March 3, 1919.
Published ReferencesPierre and Rolande Miquel, Diaz de la Peña, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: ARC Editions International, 2006): 226, no. 1452, illus.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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