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The Marl Pit at Mulcent: Evening
About the Artwork
Marl is a crumbly mixture of clays, calcium, and magnesium carbonates, often used as fertilizer for lime-deficient soils.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: Chintreuil
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). La nascita dell'impressionismo. Casa dei Carraresi, 31100 Treviso, Italy (September 9, 2000-January 14, 2001).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Antoine Chintreuil (French, 1814–1873)
- Date
- after 1857
- Medium
- oil on paper, mounted to cardboard, mounted to plywood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 64.2 x 115.8 x 7.7 cm (25 1/4 x 45 9/16 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 47.6 x 99.2 cm (18 3/4 x 39 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Accession no.
- 1980.245
Provenance
Painter Charles François Daubigny by 1874. His collection sale, Paris, Drouot, 14 April 1891 (lot 49), Paysage; soleil couchant, peinture sur papier marouflé sur toile, 48 x 100 cm. Galerie Berne Bellecour, Paris 1893. E. Martinet by 1894. Martinet collection sale, Paris, Drouot, 27 February 1896 (lot 51), La marnière de Mulcent; effet du soir. Dr. Salathé-Dietz. Paris sale, Drouot, 14 December 1976 (lot 76), Paysage: soleil couchant, 48 x 100 cm. Galerie Delestre, Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980.
More by Antoine Chintreuil in museum collections
Extensive landscape prospect with a fortified building on hill in the background (recto); Study of a landscape and a female figure (verso)
Antoine Chintreuilmid-19th century · Drawing
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009991
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