View of Le Crotoy from Upstream
Date1889
Object PlaceFrance, Western Europe, Europe
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationsPaintings
Dimensions34 1/8 × 27 3/4 inches (86.68 × 70.49 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Robert H. Tannahill
Object number70.183
DescriptionView of a distant town on water's edge at horizon right. Lower right, a green hill; lower left, water recedes to center and back to left, with a spit of land extending horizontally from left. Boats on beach before houses. Two sailboats on water in distance, left. Overall tonality is pale. Painted narrow boarder on all sides in variations of purple and blue dots.On View
On viewLocations
- Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 3, European Paintings, Gallery 10b
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of:
the artist;
Paris, Collection, Mme. Ernestine Seurat (artist's mother);
Paris, Collection Emile Seurat (artist's brother, by inheritance);
Paris, Collection Mme. Emile Seurat (widow of the above, until at
least 1909);
Paris, Collection Félix Fénéon (until 1922);
New York, Collection John Quinn (acquired from Fénéon);
New York, Paul Rosenberg and Company, (Dealer) by at least 1929;
New York, Wildenstein and Company (Dealer) until 1935;
New York, M. Knoedler and Company (Dealer) 1935;
Grosse Pointe Farms, Collection Robert Tannahill (acquired from Knoedler);
Bequeathed by Tannahill to The Detroit Institute of Arts in 1970
17th Century
c. 1678
18th Century
c. 1730
1540/1545
1641