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Farm with Villagers

Alternate TitleStudies of Peasants
Artist Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, 1736 - 1810)
Formerly attributed to P. L. Debucourt (French, born 1736)
Date1802
MediumPen and India ink wash
DimensionsOverall: 12 × 7 1/4 inches (30.48 × 18.42 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-193/7
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Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, October 23–December 19, 1955, no cat.

 

French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, September 2–October 15, 1972; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, November 3–December 17, 1972; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, January 12–March 11, 1973; New York Cultural Center, New York, April 4–May 13, 1973, no. 9, as Studies of Peasants.

 

Genre, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 5–May 15, 1983, no. 22, as Farm with Villagers.

Provenance

With Richard Owen, Paris, as by P. L. Debucourt, Farm with Villagers, by September 26–December 1, 1932 [1];

Purchased from Owen, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] For more on Paris-based dealer Richard Owen (British, 1873–1946), see Danielle Hampton Cullen, “The Elusive Mr. Richard Owen: A Dealer’s Rise and Fall in the Art Market in the United States,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 21, no. 2 (Summer 2022), https://doi.org/10.29411/ncaw.2022.21.2.5. See also letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, art advisor to NAMA, to J. C. Nichols, NAMA Trustee, September 26, 1932, NAMA curatorial files.

Published References

Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections, trans. Catherine Johnston, exh. cat. (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972), 125, 134, (repro.), as Studies of Peasants.

Genre, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 13, 23, (repro.), as Farm with Villagers.

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