Sheep at the Watering Hole
Framed: 39 13/16 × 49 7/8 × 4 15/16 inches (101.14 × 126.68 × 12.54 cm)
exhibition, Findlay Galleries, Kansas City, MO, 1931.
Winfield (KS) Public Schools, 1941.
Exhibition in conjunction with the Consumers Cooperative Association’s 30th Annual Meeting, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, MO, December 2–5, 1958.
Corot to Monet: The Rise of Landscape Painting in France , The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, January 27–April 29, 1991; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, July 30–September 28, 1991; Dallas Museum of Art, November 3, 1991–January 5, 1992; High Museum of Art, January 28–March 29, 1992, no. 73.
With R et C. Gérard Frères, Paris, before June 15, 1923 [1];
Purchased from Gérard Frères by M. Knoedler and Co., New York, stock no. 15643, as Moutons à l’Abreuvoir, 1923–January 6, 1925 [2];
Purchased from Knoedler and Co., by John Levy Galleries, New York, 1925–April 28, 1931 [3];
Purchased from John Levy Galleries and Findlay Galleries, Kansas City, MO, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1931 [4].
NOTES:
[1] According to the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, “From October 1911 to 1927, Félix Isidore’s two sons, Raphaël Louis Félix Gérard (born 1886, Colombes, Île-de-France–died 1963, Paris) and Christian Alfred Valère (born 1887, Colombes, Île-de-France–died 1945, Paris) expanded the family’s activities by opening a gallery at 2 rue La Boétie under the name Gérard Frères.”
[2] See M. Knoedler and Co. records, approximately 1848-1971, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Painting Stock Book 7, p. 53, no. 15643, as Moutons a L’abreuvoir. See also Series IV. Inventory cards, 1859-1971, Box 118, Knoedler- Mazoh, Item 233, as Sheep and Shepherd at the Pool.
[3] See footnote 2.
[4] See letters from Harold Woodbury Parsons, art adviser to the Nelson-Atkins, to J. C. Nichols, Nelson-Atkins trustee, March 13 and 25, 1931, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Parsons sent the painting from John Levy Galleries to an exhibition at Findlay Galleries in the spring of 1931. Parsons encouraged the museum trustees to purchase the picture, and Findlay earned some profit on the arrangement.
According to a certificate of guarantee from John Levy Galleries and Findlay Galleries to Nelson-Atkins, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files, John Levy Galleries purchased the painting from a client of Boussod, Valadon and Co. However, the painting has not been found in Galerie Boussod, Valadon
stock books at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
“Another Recent Purchase for the Nelson Gallery of Art,”Kansas City Star 51, no. 263 (June 7, 1931): 4, (repro.), as Sheep.
“What to See In Kansas City: A Guide to Principal Points of Interest Presented in the Style of A Baedeker,” Kansas City Star 52, no. 101 (December 27, 1931): 3C, as Sheep.
“Nelson Gallery of Art Special Number,” Art Digest 8, no. 5 (December 1, 1933): 21, as Sheep.
“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City Special Number,”Art News 32, no. 10 (December 9, 1933): 28, as Sheep.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 137, as Sheep.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 168, as Sheep.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts , 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 260, a Sheep.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri , vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 258, as Sheep.
Kermit S. Champa, The Rise of Landscape Painting in France: Corot to Manet, exh. cat. (Manchester, NH: The Currier Gallery of Art, 1991), 174, 229, (repro.), as Sheep (At the Watering Hole).
Catherine Futter et al., Bloch Galleries: Highlights from the Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 33, 175, (repro.), as Sheep (At the Watering Hole).
Simon Kelly, “Charles Emile Jacque, Sheep at the Watering Hole, ca. 1888,” catalogue entry and Mary Schafer, “Charles Emile Jacque, Sheep at the Watering Hole, ca. 1888,” technical entry in French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2022), https://doi.org/10.37764/78973.5.520.
