Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000888River Boat
Inscriptions
Stamped lower left: Vente Daubigny
Provenance
In the possession of the artist, Charles François Daubigny (died 1878); sold, his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6, 1878, lot 172, as Remorqueur près du Havre. Robert Churchill Vose and Nathaniel Morton Vose, Boston, by 1917; sold, American Art Galleries, New York, April 4, 1917, lot 91, as French Tug-Boat, for $280 to Francis Ralston Welsh, Devon, Penn. [American Art Association record book for 1917]; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 26, 1938, lot 500 to Hannah D. Rabinowitz [according to Sotheby's fax dated September 16, 2003, in curatorial file]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York; sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, March 1, 1945, lot 126, to Fine Arts Associates [according to Sotheby's fax cited above]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by October 1945 [see New York 1945 exh. cat.]. John J. Ireland (died 1968), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, Camille Pissarro: His Place in Art, October 24–November 24, 1945, cat. 55. Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft Museum of Art, Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscapes, Feb. 19-May 29, 2016, fig. 58; traveled to the Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Scottish National Gallery, June 25-October 2, 2016, and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Oct. 21, 2016-Jan. 29, 2017.
Publications
John Rewald, "Pissarro and His Circle," Art News 44 (October 15–31, 1945), pp. 17–18 (ill.). John Rewald, The History of Impressionism (New York, 1946), p. 91 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1967–68 (Chicago, 1968), p. 18. Art Institute of Chicago, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (unpublished typescript, 1971), p. 24. Robert Hellebranth, Charles-François Daubigny, 1817–1878 (Morges, Switzerland, 1976), p. 224, no. 675. Clarke, Michael. 2015. "Tales of the Riverbank: Daubigny's River Scenes," In Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape, pp. 65-78 (p. 69, fig. 58 ill.), Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles François Daubigny (French, 1817–1878)
- Date
- c. 1860
- Medium
- Oil on board
- Dimensions
- 21.2 × 45.4 cm (8 3/8 × 17 7/8 in.); Framed: 37.5 × 62.3 × 3.9 cm (14 3/4 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on board
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland
- Accession no.
- 1968.89
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