The Black Rocks at Trouville

Provenance

Mary Cassatt [1844-1926], Philadelphia and Paris. Acquired 1943 by (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., London); sold 1950 to a private collection, Buenos Aires.[1] (Artemis Fine Art, London), in 1985.[2] Private collection, Boston. (Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York). Private collection, New York, by 1998;[3] sold 31 May 2011 through (Coleman Bancroft LLC, New York) to NGA. [1] Per email dated 15 April 2011 from Ay-Whang Hsia of Wildenstein, New York. It is possible also that the painting was in a Cassatt family collection and not that of Mary Cassatt personally. [2] Artemis Fine Art, _Annual Report_, London, 1985: 28, no. 11. [3] The provenance after 1985 was supplied by Coleman Bancroft LLC; copies in NGA curatorial files.

The Black Rocks at Trouville

Courbet, Gustave

1865/1866

Accession Number

2011.51.1

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 50 × 61 cm (19 11/16 × 24 in.) | framed: 70.8 × 81.28 × 6.35 cm (27 7/8 × 32 × 2 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Chester Dale Fund