The Ruins of Montchauvet

Antoine Chintreuil (1816 - 1873), Montchauvet, c. 1866-1867

oil on canvas, 42 cm x 65.5 cm

Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Object number
s0459S1996
Dimensions
42 cm x 65.5 cm, 64 cm x 88 cm
Provenance
Charles-François Daubigny, 1874; Brame, Paris; Felix Gérard Père, Paris; Galerie Berne-Bellecour, Paris, 1893; sold by Galerie Berne-Bellecour to Albert Rey, Marseille for FRF 1.800, 1896; Galerie Bruno Meissner, Zürich, 1986; possibly auction Cologne, Lempertz (Alte Kunst), lot 325 (Ein Sommertag), unsold, 21 July 1990; private collection, Europe, 1993; auction New York, Christie’s (Barbizon, Realist & French landscape Paintings), lot 264 (Les Ruines de Montchauvet), sold for USD 11.500, 25 May 1995; sold by Stoppenbach & Delestre Ltd, London to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1996
artist
Antoine Chintreuil
Credits
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Leeuw, Ronald de, Tilborgh, Louis van, Esner, Rachel, Becker, Edwin, Blühm, Andreas, Heugten, Sjraar van, Van Gogh Museum Journal 1996, 1997, p. 196-197

Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, 2000, p. 94

Champfleury, Fizelière, A. de la, Henriet, F., La vie et l'oeuvre de Chintreuil, 1874, p. 49

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