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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Road to Market
    Constant Troyon. The Road to Market, 1858–59. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000160

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    The Road to Market

    by Constant Troyon

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left: C Troyon

    Provenance

    E. Gaillard, Paris, by 1867; his sale for 7,000 francs [sale according to Narischkine sale catalogue, cited below; price according to Souillé 1900]. B. Narischkine, Paris, by 1883; his sale, Galerie George Petit, April 5, 1883, lot 83 as La Route du marché for 42,500 francs to Arnold & Tripp [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; Arnold & Tripp, Paris. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

    Exhibition history

    Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, Fine Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decoration, 1893, cat. 2983.

    Publications

    “Troyon,” L’Art: Revue bi-mensuelle illustrée, vol. 1 (1889), pl. XLVI. “Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 57, no. 36. “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115. “Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37, no. 36. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 67–8, no. 36. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 74, no. 36. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 94, no. 36 (ill.). William M. R. French, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: I. Introduction,” Brush and Pencil 1, 4 (1898), pp. 81, 86 (ill.); reprinted, Charles Francis Browne, Brush and Pencil: A Magazine of Art, September 1897–March 1898, vol. 1 (Chicago: Phillips & Company, 1898), p. vi. Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: IV. The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Brush and Pencil 2, 1 (1898), p. 5, no. 36 (ill.). “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 36. Louis Souillé, Peintures, pastels, aquarelles, dessins de Constant Troyon: Relevés dans les catalogues de ventes (Paris: Louis Souillé, 1900), p. 146. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 163, no. 136 (ill.). Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy, vol. 2 (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), pp. 709, 713, no. 36. N. Hudson Moore, “The Barbizon School II,” The Chautauquan 36 (1903), p. 504. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 168, no. 136 (ill.). Karl Baedeker, The United States with an Excursion into Mexico: Handbook for Travellers, 3rd ed. (Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Firm, 1904), p. 351, no. 136; revised 4th edition, (Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Firm, 1909), p. 372, no. 136. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 180, no. 136 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 171, no. 136 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, The Collections Illustrated (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), n. p. (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 115, no. 136 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 119, no. 136 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 119, no. 136 (ill.). The New International Encyclopædia, vol. 22 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918), p. 503. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 25, no. 136. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 25, no. 136. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 25, no. 136. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), pp. 49 (ill.), 155, no. 136. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), pp. 45 (ill.), 174. Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, vol. 2, pt. 2 (Leipzig: Schmidt & Günther, 1944), p. 901, no. 19. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 455. Valentina B. Berezina, The Hermitage Catalogue of Western European Painting: French Painting: Early and Mid-Nineteenth Century (New York: Johnson Reprint/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), p. 451, under no. 419. Eric Zafran, Santa Barbara Collects: Impressions of France, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1998), p. 122, under no. 65.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Constant Troyon (French, 1810–1865)
    Date
    1858–59
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    92 × 73.4 cm (36 1/4 × 28 7/8 in.); Framed: 130.4 × 111.8 × 13.6 cm (51 3/8 × 44 × 5 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    nineteenth century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Henry Field Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1894.1068

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