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    Pond in the Woods
    Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña. Pond in the Woods, 1862. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001387

    Pond in the Woods

    by Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower right: N. Diaz 1862

    Provenance

    Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago [according to a label on the back of the painting]. Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Chicago; lent to the Art Institute, 1920 [see “Notes” 1920]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

    Exhibition history

    Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Collection of Old and Modern Masters from Chicago Collections, July 25–October 13, 1935, cat. 1. New York, American Federation of Arts, The Road to Impressionism, October 1963–May 1964, cat. 19; travelled to Wichita Art Museum, October 6–27, 1893; Seattle, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, November 10–December 1, 1963; San Antonio, Witte Memorial Museum, December 15, 1963–January 5, 1964; Allentown Art Museum, January 19–February 9, 1964; Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, February 23–March 15, 1964; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, March 19–April 19, 1964; Flint, Michigan, Dewaters Art Center, Flint Institute of Arts, May 2–24, 1964. Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 17, 1985, cat. 6 traveled to Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986 and Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.

    Publications

    “Notes,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 14, 5 (1920), p. 77. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings, pt. 2 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 59, cat. 752. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings, pt. 2 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 64, cat. 752. Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings, pt. 2 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 64, cat. 752. Marguerite B. Williams, “Valuable Collection of Paintings Added to Chicago’s Art Treasures,” America Today – Fort Dearborn Magazine (Mid-Winter, 1924), p. 26. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 134, no. 752. Art Institute of Chicago, Kimball Gallery of Paintings: XVII to XIX Century (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1928), pp. 14–15. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 151. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 128. Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800–1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and New York: H. N. Abrams, 1987), pp. 34 (ill.), 35, 37, 118. Edward J. Sullivan and Ruth Krueger Meyer, The Taft Museum: It’s History and Collections, vol. 1, pt. 2 (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995), p. 254 n. 1. Pierre and Rolande Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807–1876), vol. 2 (Courbevoie: ACR Édition Internationale, 2006), p. 244, cat. 1545 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876)
    Date
    1862
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    68 × 89.8 cm (26 3/4 × 35 3/8 in.); Framed: 102.3 × 124.5 cm (40 1/4 × 49 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Barbizon School
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.4455

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