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A Waterfall

Artist Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, 1736 - 1810)
Date18th century
MediumBlack ink and wash over graphite on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 16 3/16 x 13 5/16 inches (41.12 x 33.81 cm)
Framed: 27 1/4 x 23 9/16 x 1 inches (69.22 x 59.84 x 2.54 cm)
Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy
Object numberF75-63/2
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Master Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 54, as A Waterfall.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as A Waterfall.

Escape to Eden: The Pastoral Vision in Eighteenth-Century France, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, March 19-May 30, 1999.

Looking at Historic Lands: Urban and Rural, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15-June 10, 2012, no cat., A Waterfall.

Provenance

Hermitage, St. Petersburg;

Purchased at its sale, Handzeichnungen Alter Meister des XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts aus den Beständen der Eremitage zu Leningrad, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 4, 1932, lot 5, by Hering [1];

Kunst 15.-20. Jahrhundert, Karl & Faber, Munich, November 29-December 1, 1962, lot 355;

With Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler, Munich, stock no. M_62-148, by March 29, 1965 [2];

Purchased from Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Kansas City, MO, March 29, 1965-1975;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1975.

NOTES:

[1] According to Andrea Langenberger, C. G. Boerner GmbH, Düsseldorf, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Specialist, Provenance, September 13, 2017, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

[2] Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich/Photothek, Julius Böhler Archive, Munich Index, M_62-148.

Published References

Versteigerungskatalog 177: Handzeichnungen alter Meister des XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts aus den Beständen der Eremitage zu Leningrad (Leipzig: C.G. Boerner, May 4, 1932), 2, as Blick auf einen Wasserfall an einer Hausmauer. Im Vordergrunde ein Hirt mit Tieren.

Kunst: 15.-20. Jahrhundert; Einblattholzschnitte Graphik U. Zeichnungen alter Meister (Munich: Karl und Faber, November 29, 1962), 89, (repro.), as Blick auf einen Wasserfall an einer Hausmauer, im Vordergrund ein Hirt mit Ziegen und Schafen.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 196, (repro.), as A Waterfall.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 12, 174-75, (repro.), as A Waterfall.

Laurie Winters and Barry Wind, Escape to Eden: The Pastoral Vision in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat. (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1999).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 105, (repro.), as A Waterfall.

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