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Alfred Sisley (artist) French, 1839 - 1899 Meadow, 1875 oil on canvas Overall: 54.9 x 73 cm (21 5/8 x 28 3/4 in.) framed: 79.7 x 98.7 x 10.2 cm (31 3/8 x 38 7/8 x 4 in.) Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection 1970.17.83 Not on View |
Provenance
Armand-François-Paul des Frisches, Comte Doria [1824-1896], Paris; (his sale, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 4 May 1899, no. 224); purchased by (Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris); sold 1900 to (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris). Jules Strauss, Paris; (Strauss sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 May 1902, no. 60); purchased by Joubert, possibly for (Galeries Georges Petit, Paris)[1] Senator Antonio Santamarina, Buenos Aires, by 1933;[2] sold 1957 to (Wildenstein and Co., New York);[3] by whom sold 4 October 1957 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York;[4] bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1]Joubert is recorded as purchaser in an annotated copy of sales catalogue in NGA curatorial files, and in the Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot. Galerie Georges Petit according to Françoise Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 190. [2]Santamarina lent Meadow (La Prairie) to an exhibition in Buenos Aires in 1933. It was included in the 3-5 October 1955 sale of the Santamarina collection held at Adolfo Bullrich Y Cia in Buenos Aires, no.79. [3]Wildenstein date and source of acquisition according to letter dated 14 December 1998, in NGA curatorial files. [4]Receipt dated 4 October 1957 from Wildenstein to Mrs. Bruce in NGA curatorial files.