Boston MFA's Eight Deaccessions: Provenance, Exhibitions

20 Sep 2011

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

Object Checklist

64.2205 European/Paintings

Paintings

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

Forest Interior (Sous-Bois)

1884

Oil on canvas

unframed

55.5 x 46.1 cm (21 7/8 x 18 1/8 in.)

Gift of Laurence K. and Lorna J. Marshall

Provenance:

By 1894, probably with Julien-François Tanguy (b. 1825 - d. 1894), Paris; June 2, 1894, sale to benefit Madame

Tanguy, Hôtel Drouot, Paris [see note 1], lot 26, to Ambroise Vollard (b. 1867 - d. 1939), Paris, for 76 francs;

October 13, 1894, sold by Vollard to Gaston Lévy, Paris, for 76 francs [see note 2]. 1907, Dr. Georges Viau (b.

1855 - d. 1939), Paris; March 4, 1907, Viau sale, Durand-Ruel, Paris, lot 20, sold to the Marquise de Ganay; to

Comte François de Ganay (b. 1904 - d. 1984), Paris. 1951, with Galerie André Weil, Paris [see note 3].

Wildenstein, New York. By 1958, Laurence K. Marshall (d. 1980) and Lorna J. Marshall, Cambridge, MA [see

note 4]; 1964, gift of Laurence K. and Lorna J. Marshall to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1964)

NOTES:

[1] Gauguin had consigned several pictures for sale to Tanguy, a collector and dealer, when he went to Tahiti in

1891. After the death of Tanguy, his friends -- particularly artists and other collectors and dealers -- organized an

auction to benefit his widow. This painting seems to have been taken from Tanguy's stock (titled "Les Sapins").

See Merete Bodelsen, "Early Impressionist Sales 1874-94 in the light of some unpublished 'procès verbaux,'"

Burlington Magazine 110, no. 783 (June, 1968): 347-348, p.v. no. 45.

[2] See Daniel Wildenstein "Gauguin, A Savage in the Making: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, 1873-1888"

(New York, 2002), vol. 1, p. 153, cat. no. 135; unless otherwise noted, the provenance information given here is

taken from this source. For further on Vollard's transactions see Rebecca A. Rabinow, ed., Cézanne to Picasso:

Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde (exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006), p. 229, n. 31.

[3] Included in the exhibition "Gauguin et ses amis" (Galerie André Weil, Paris, June 1 - 20, 1951), cat. no. 18.

[4] The Marshalls lent the painting to the exhibition "Paul Gauguin" (Haus der Kunst, Munich, April 1- May 29,

1960), cat. no. 17 (as "Unterholz"). According to Wildenstein 2002 (as above, n. 2), Mr. Marshall owned the

painting by 1958. Exhibition History:

GAUGUIN - Forest Interior (64.2205)

Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, March 4, 1907, cat. 20; Paris, Galerie André Weil, "Gauguin et ses amis," June 1-20,

1951, cat. 18; Munich, Haus der Kunst, "Paul Gauguin," April 1- May 29, 1960, cat. 16 (as Unterholz); Vienna,

Belvédère, "Gauguin," 1960, cat. 4; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Impressionism: French and American," June

15- October 14, 1973, cat. 14; Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, and Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of

Modern Art, "Monet and His Contemporaries: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," November

17, 1992- January 17, 1993 and January 23- March 22, 1993, cat. 60; Nagoya, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine

Arts, "Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape," April 15- September 15, 1999, cat. 57; Ottawa, National

Gallery of Canada, and Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Monet,

Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape," June 1- August 27, 2000 and September 19- December 10, 2000 and

January 21- April 15, 2001, cat. 34; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, "Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist

Landscape," January 22- April 14, 2002, cat. 34; Las Vegas, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, "The Impressionist

Landscape from Corot to van Gogh: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," June 10, 2005- April

25, 2006, cat. n.n; Nagoya, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art,

"Gauguin," April 18-June 21, 2009 and July 3- September 23, 2009, cat. 2.

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Paintings

Maxime Camille Louis Maufra (French, 1861–1918)

Gust of Wind

1899

Oil on canvas

unframed

151.1 x 351.2 cm (59 1/2 x 138 1/4 in.)

Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Provenance:

1899, painted for the Grand Hôtel de Morgat, France; April 17, 1908, sold by the hotel manager, Paul Pia, to

Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock no. 8746); 1954, sold by Durand-Ruel to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (b. 1909 - d. 1988),

New York; 1963, gift of Walter P. Chrysler to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 20, 1963)

NOTE:

The provenance of this painting is taken from information provided to the MFA by Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy

(June 4, 1996) and Charles Durand-Ruel (December 3, 1964). Maufra was a friend of the hotel manager, Mr. Pia.

He created four paintings for the hotel, which were sold to Durand-Ruel in 1908. Exhibition History:


Paintings

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

The Fort of Antibes

1888

Oil on canvas

unframed

65.4 x 81 cm (25 3/4 x 31 7/8 in.)

Anonymous gift

Provenance:

June 6, 1890, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris [see note 1]; September 25, 1890, sold by Durand-Ruel to

Joseph Foxcroft Cole (b. 1837 - d. 1892) for Peter Chardon Brooks (b. 1831 - d. 1920), Boston; by descent to his

daughter, Eleanor Brooks (Mrs. Richard M.) Saltonstall, Boston; 1962, by descent from Mrs. Saltonstall to an

anonymous donor; 1978, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 10, 1978)

NOTES:

[1] The provenance given here is taken from Daniel Wildenstein, "Monet: catalogue raisonné" (1996), vol. 3, p.

442, cat. no. 1161a. Exhibition History:

MONET - The Fort of Antibes (1978.634) Exhibition History

Paris, Georges Petit, "Monet-Rodin," 1889, cat. 100; Boston, St. Botolph Club, "Monet," 1892, cat. 6; Boston,

Museum of Fine Arts, "Claude Monet Memorial Exhibition," January 11-February 6, 1927, cat. 69; Coral Gables,

Lowe Art Museum, "French Impressionists Influence American Artists" March 19-April 25, 1971, cat. 113; Kyoto,

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art and Yokohama, Sogo Museum

of Art, "From Neoclassicism to Impressionism: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," May

30-July 2 and July 15-August 20 and August 30-October 10, 1989, cat. 71; Nagoya, Matsuzakaya Art Museum and

Nara, Nara Prefectural Museum of Art and Hiroshima, Hiroshima Museum of Art, "World Impressionism and

Pleinairism," March 21- April 28 and May 3- June 16 and June 22-July 28, 1991, cat. 10; Baltimore, The

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Claude Monet: Impressionist Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,"

September 21, 1991-January 19, 1992; Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum and Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of

Modern Art, "Monet and His Contemporaries from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," October 17, 1992-January

17, 1993 and January 23-March 22, 1993, cat. 36; Ottawa, National Galley of Canada and Richmond, Virginia

Museum of Fine Arts and Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, "Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape,"

June 2-August 27 and September 19-December 10, 2000 and January 22-April 14, 2002; Boston, Museum of Fine

Arts, "Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet," December 15, 2002-April 23, 2003,

cat.14; Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum, "Impressionism in Boston," April 26-November 9, 2003, cat. 7; Las

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Vegas, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, "Claude Monet: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," January

30, 2004-May 30, 2005; London, Royal Academy of Arts and West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art,

"Impressionism Abroad," July 2- September 11 and November 19, 2005-March 5, 2006, cat. 37;


Paintings

Camille Pissarro (French (born in the Danish West Indies), 1830–1903)

View from the Artist's Window, Eragny

1885

Oil on canvas

unframed

54.5 x 65.1 cm (21 7/16 x 25 5/8 in.)

Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection

Provenance:

Possibly in the Collection of Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris. 1892, with Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York; 1914, sold

by Durand-Ruel to Robert J. Edwards (d. 1924), Boston; 1925, bequest of Robert J. Edwards to the MFA. [see note

1] (Accession Date: April 2, 1925)

NOTES:

[1] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who

seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his

collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his

collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the

objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of

Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine

exactly which paintings each sibling had owned. Exhibition History:

Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, "Oeuvres récentes de Camille Pissarro," March 15 - 30, 1893, cat. no. 33; Boston,

Museum of Fine Arts, "Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection," December 1, 1939 - January 15, 1940, cat. no. 45, ill.

p. 109; New York, Wildenstein, "Camille Pissarro: His Place in Art," October 24 - November 24, 1945, cat. no.

25.; [Pittsfield, Mass., Berkshire Museum, "French Impressionist Painting," August 2 - 31, 1946, cat. no. 8.];

[Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, "Paintings and Prints Since 1860," May 8 - 25, 1947, no cat.];

[Boston, Symphony Hall, 1949, cat. not found.]; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Impressionism," June 15 -

October 14, 1973, cat. no. 65; Berkeley, University of California, Long term loan exhibition, September 1, 1974 -

October 31, 1975, no cat.; Nagoya, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, "Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist

Landscape," April 17 - September 26, 1999, cat. no. 28; Ottawa, National Galley of Canada, and Richmond,

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, and Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland,

"Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape," June 2 - August 27 and September 19 - December 10, 2000 and

January 21 - April 15, 2001 and January 22 - April 14, 2002, cat. no. 29; Las Vegas, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art,

"The Impressionist Landscape from Corot to Van Gogh: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,"

June 10, 2005 - April 25, 2006, cat. p. 49; Villa Manin di Passariano, Italy, "L'eta? di Courbet e Monet: la

diffusione del realismo e dell'impressionismo nell'Europa centrale e orientale," September 26, 2009 - March 7,

2010, cat. no. 95; Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, "European Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine

Arts, Boston," July 3 - August 29, 2010, cat. p. 172.

* Brackets indicate exhibitions that have not been independently verified.


Paintings

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

Bust Portrait of a Young Woman

Oil on canvas

20 Sep 2011

unframed

Overall: 55.9 x 46.3cm (22 x 18 1/4in.)

Bequest of William A. Coolidge

Provenance:

1918, possibly with Ambroise Vollard (b. 1866 - d. 1939), Paris (?) [see note 1]. By 1949, James Bramford, Esq.,

England; sold by Bramford to the Mayor Gallery, London (stock no. MG 3678); 1949, sold by the Mayor Gallery

to William A. Coolidge (b. 1901 - d. 1992), Topsfield and Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 1993, bequest of William

A. Coolidge to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 27, 1993)

NOTES:

[1] Published in his Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Paris, 1918), vol. 1, p. 29, no. 116. [2]

Entitled "Gabrielle" at the time of the sale. Provenance information compiled with the kind assistance of Niina

Cunynghame of the Mayor Gallery, London. Exhibition History:


Paintings

Alfred Sisley (British (active in France), 1839–1899)

Overcast Day at Saint-Mammès

about 1880

Oil on canvas

unframed

54.9 x 74.0 cm (21 5/8 x 29 1/8 in.)

Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection

Provenance:

October 28, 1880, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris [see note 1]; from Durand-Ruel, Paris to Durand-Ruel,

New York (stock no. 5014); sold by Durand-Ruel, New York to Hannah Marcy Edwards (d. 1929), Boston; 1929,

by inheritance to her sister, Grace M. Edwards (d. 1938), Boston; 1939, bequest of Hannah Marcy Edwards to the

MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: October 11, 1939)

NOTES:

[1] According to François Daulte, "Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint" (Lausanne, 1959), cat. no.

374.

[2] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who

seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his

collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his

collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the

objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of

Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine

exactly which paintings each sibling had owned. Exhibition History:


Paintings

Alfred Sisley (British (active in France), 1839–1899)

Saint-Mammès: Morning (Le Matin)

1881

Oil on canvas

unframed

50.2 x 73.7 cm (19 3/4 x 29 in.)

Bequest of William A. Coolidge

Provenance:

1912, B. J. Fils, Paris; May 3, 1912, sold by B. J. Fils to Bernheim-Jeune Galleries, Paris (stock nos. 19487 and

19800) [see note 1]; May 4, 1912, sold by Bernheim-Jeune to Hirsch [see note 2]; December 7, 1912, Hirsch sale,

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Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 46, sold to Félix Gérard, Paris, for 8550 fr. 1917, with Galerie Georges Petit, Paris [see

note 3]. 1931, Max Emden (b. 1874 - d. 1940), Hamburg; June 9, 1931, Emden sale, Ball and Graupe, Berlin, lot

49, sold for M 8100 [see note 4]. Probably in the early 1930s, acquired by Siegfried Arndt (b. about 1879 - d.

1958), Berlin and New York [see note 5]; 1958, sold by the estate of Siegfried Arndt to Knoedler and Co., New

York (stock no. A7088) and Henry Pearlman (b. 1895 - d. 1974), New York (purchased jointly); March 24, 1959,

sold by Knoedler to William A. Coolidge (b. 1901 - d. 1992), Boston; 1993, bequest of William A. Coolidge to the

MFA. (Accession Date: January 27, 1993)

NOTES:

[1] B. J. Fils was the name of the collection of art owned by Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune. [2] The

information about Bernheim-Jeune's transactions is taken from a letter from Guy-Patrice Dauberville,

Bernheim-Jeune and Co., Paris (June 6, 2003; in MFA curatorial file). "Hirsch" may be the banker Louis Hirsch (d.

1932) of Paris, who owned at least two other paintings by Sisley. [3] The painting was included in the "Exposition

d'oeuvres d'Alfred Sisley," Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 14 - June 7, 1917, no. 7. [4] Titled "Flusslandschaft

mit Dorf." [5] Siegfried Arndt had a collection of French Impressionist paintings, which he acquired in Berlin in

the late 1920s and early 1930s before emigrating to the United States in the mid-1930s. Exhibition History:


Paintings

Vasily Vereshchagin (Russian, 1842–1904)

Pearl Mosque, Delhi

Oil on canvas

unframed

395 x 500 cm (155 1/2 x 196 7/8 in.)

Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution

Provenance:

November 17-21, 1891, Vassili Verestchagin collection sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 108, sold to

the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1892) Exhibition History:

Boston MFA's Eight Deaccessions: Provenance, Exhibitions

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