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Landscape: The Sense of Smell

Artist Isaac de Moucheron (French, 1667 - 1744)
Datelate 17th-early 18th century
MediumBrown ink and gray wash on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 13 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (34.29 x 24.45 cm)
Framed: 21 x 17 x 1 inches (53.34 x 43.18 x 2.54 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Mission Fund
Object numberF63-51/2
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 69, as Smelling, From the Five Senses.

 

Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no. 19, as Smelling, From the Five Senses.  

 

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 29, 2009-November 8, 2009.

 

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15, 2017-July 16, 2017.

 

Provenance

With R. M. Light and Co. Inc., Santa BarbaraCA, by November 5, 1963;

Purchased from R.M. Light and Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1963.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 37-8, (repro.), as Smelling, From the Five Senses.  

 

Ross E. Taggart, Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as Smelling, From the Five Senses.  

 

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), 182, (repro.), as Sense of Smell.

 

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), 85, (repro.), as Sense of Smell.

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