National Gallery of Art · Painting
Auvers (Washerwomen)
Charles-François Daubigny
- Date
- 1861
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- overall: 24.45 × 46.67 cm (9 5/8 × 18 3/8 in.) framed: 40.64 × 60.96 × 4.76 cm (16 × 24 × 1 7/8 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 2014.136.57
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection, 1937)
- Time span
- 1851 to 1875
- Department
- CF
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- French
- Romantic
- Acquired after publication of French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Part I: Before Impressionism [1800-1859]
- Riverscape
- Washing clothes
- Washerwomen
- washerwomen
- genre
Provenance
The artist; (his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 6-11 May 1878, no. 110, as _Auvers (les laveuses)_.[1] Edward C. [d. 1915] and Mary Griffin [1855-1937] Walker, Willistead Manor, Walkerville, Ontario, and Washington; bequest 4 May 1937 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] According to Robert Hellebranth, _Charles-François Daubigny, 1817-1878_, Morges, France, 1976: 83, no. 225.
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