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The Marsh
Inscriptions
Inscribed: C. Troyon (lower left); Mr. Levaigneur 1840 (inside of original frame)
Provenance
Mme. Lavaigneur collection, probably by 1840 [inscribed on the inside of original frame: Mr. Levaigneur 1840]; her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 2, 1912, lot 19 (ill.); sold to Lemaréchal for 24,100 Francs [acc. to Gazette de Hôtel Drouot (May 4, 1912)]. Robert Hellebranth, Paris. Galerie Koller’s Sale, Zurich, November 11, 1981, lot 5047 (ill. 61); private collection; Sotheby’s Sale, London, June 12, 1996, lot 44 (ill.). Stair Sainty Matthiesen Inc., New York, 1996; sold to the Art Institute, 1996.
Exhibition history
Chicago, Art Institute, Troyon’s “The Marsh,” May 9–August 2, 1998, no cat.
Publications
Louis Soullié, Peintures, pastels, dessins de Constant Troyon, Librairies Spéciales des Catalogues de vente, Paris, 1900, p. 10. ? Gloria Groom, “The Marsh,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1, pp. 64-65 (color ills.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Constant Troyon (French, 1810–1865)
- Date
- 1840
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 93 × 140 cm (36 1/2 × 55 in.); Framed: 122 × 169 cm (48 × 66 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by David and Mary Winton Green
- Accession no.
- 1996.649
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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