Landscape

Gauguin, Paul (painter)

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Title/s

Landscape

Maker/s

Gauguin, Paul (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1848-1903]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

French

Technique Description

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 50.5 cm
width: 81.6 cm

Date

1873

Provenance

given: Milner-White, Eric 1952 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

(?) family of Mette-Sophie Gad wife of Gaugin; with the Goldsmidt Gallery, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1920; Bargel Sale, Frankfurt, 15 March 1923, no. 70; Dr. Guggenheim, Berlin; with C. Marshall Spink, London, who sold it to Messrs. Marlborough Fine Art, London; bought from them by the donor, 1952, for presentation to the Fitzwilliam Museum

the Very Rev. E. Milner-White, C.B.E., D.S.O., Dean of York, in devoted memory of his mother, Annie Booth Milner-White

Inscriptions/Marks

1. signature
   Position: lower left
   Method:
   Content: p. gaugin
   Description:
   
2. date
   Position: lower left
   Method:
   Content: 7 : 73
   Description:
   
3. label
   Position: frame
   Method:
   Content: No. 24 in our Exhibition of French Masters of the 19th and 20th. Centuries, June-August 1950
   Description: label of Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.
   
4. 
   Position: frame
   Method: white chalk
   Content: WRINS
   
5. 
   Position: stretcher
   Method: blue chalk
   Content: 8000 kroner
   
6. 
   Position: stretcher
   Method: blue chalk
   Content: 67R
   
7. number
   Position: stretcher
   Method: blue chalk
   Content: 14
   
8. number
   Position: stretcher
   Method: blue chalk
   Content: (?) 508
   
9. number
   Position: stretcher
   Method: blue chalk
   Content: 1092 / 70
   
10. label
    Position: verso
    Method: printed
    Content: 99 (??) (remains of a printed label, with other partial characters)
    

Documentation

1. (1950) Catalogue, French Masters of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, London?
   [comments: cat. no. 24, reproduced]
2. (1950) Catalogue, French Masters of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, London?
   [comments: cat. no. 19, reproduced]
3. Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 992]
   Source title: Illustrated London News (1960)
4. Zoccoli, Franca Sugli inizi di Gaugin, [page: 48]
   Source title: Commentari (1954)
   [comments: pl. XV, fig. 1]
5. Goodison, J.W. (1960) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, French, German and Spanish, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 176]
   [comments: pl. 91]
6. Wildenstein, Georges (1964) Gaugin, Colmar, Paris [page: 3]
   [comments: no. 5 as Le Lac dans la plaine]
7. Bodelsen, Merete 'The dating of Gaugin's Early Paintings', London? [page: 308, 310]
   Source title: Burlington Magazine (1965)
   [comments: repr. p. 308]
8. Goodison, J.W. 'The dating of Gaugin's early painting', London? [page: 579-580]
   Source title: Burlington Magazine (1965)
   [comments: 'Letters']

Accession Number

PD.20-1952 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 2676; Input Date: 2000-03-03 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

Related Resources

French Impressionists - Online Exhibition