Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Achille-Etna Michallon  (French, Paris 1796–1822 Paris)

Date:
ca. 1812–15
Medium:
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions:
12 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. (31.8 x 36.8 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009
Accession Number:
2009.400.86
  • Provenance

    [John Lishawa, London, until 1996; consigned to Didier Aaron, Inc., New York; sold through Didier Aaron to Thaw]; Eugene V. Thaw, New York (1996–2009)

  • Exhibition History

    Galerie de la Scala, New York. Didier Aaron, John Lishawa. "Exhibition of Landscapes, Including 'Neo-Classique & En Plein Air Paysages'," May 1996, no. 39 (as "Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris").

    New York. Pierpont Morgan Library. "The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994," September 27, 2002–January 19, 2003, not in catalogue.

  • References

    Esther Bell. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Thaw Collection." Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection. New York, 2011, p. 135, no. 100, ill. (color), calls it "Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris," and dates it ca. 1812–15.



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