Well at the Side of a Road

Inscriptions

Signed lower left foreground: Appian; lower right: Appian [false]

Provenance

Possibly, Lyons sale, 29 March 1973, Chioggia, 28.2 x 45 cm, ff 4,400 (same dimensions as Cleveland painting). Claude Marumo, Paris. Sold in 1977 to Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the cma on 19 December 1980.

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

Quick Overview

Artist: Adolphe Appian (French, 1818–1898)
Date: 1860s
Medium: oil on fabric
Dimensions: Unframed: 28.2 x 45 cm (11 1/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: Painting
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Credit line: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
Accession no.: 1980.227

More by Adolphe Appian in museum collections

Pond at the Edge of the Wood
Adolphe Appian
1862 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003199
Three Fishermen Along the Banks of a River at the Edge of a Forest
Adolphe Appian
1868 · Drawing
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00011117
A Pond with a Fisherman along the River Ain
Adolphe Appian
1868–70 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019189

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Well at the Side of a Road

Inscriptions

Provenance

Quick Overview

More by Adolphe Appian in museum collections

Pond at the Edge of the Wood

Three Fishermen Along the Banks of a River at the Edge of a Forest

A Pond with a Fisherman along the River Ain