The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed)

Provenance

Purchased June 1861 by Anna Delion, Paris; (her sale, Paris, 19-26 March 1862, no. 351, as _La Récolte du colza_). C.G. Candano, by June 1887.[1] sold 1899 to William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Early provenance according to _La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth-Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery_, Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1983: 41-42.

The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed)

Breton, Jules

1860

Accession Number

2014.136.21

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 93.98 × 137.16 cm (37 × 54 in.) | framed: 128.27 × 172.72 × 17.15 cm (50 1/2 × 68 × 6 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)