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Vue d'une rue des faubourgs de Besançon
Vue d'une rue des faubourgs de Besançon

Vue d'une rue des faubourgs de Besançon

Alternate TitleBesançon
Artist Richard Parkes Bonington (English, 1801 - 1828)
Date1827
MediumLithograph
DimensionsSheet: 14 5/8 × 11 1/4 inches (37.16 × 28.58 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard S. Davis
Object number53-27
On View
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Collections
Exhibition History

Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 13-April 10, 1983, no. 33, as Besançon, dated 1827.

Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1: 1933–1958, 50th Anniversary Exhibition, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 23-November 20, 1983, no. 15, as Besançon.


Provenance

With Richard S. Davis (1917-1985), Wayzata, MN, by December 26, 1952-1953 [1];

Given by Richard S. Davis to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

NOTES:

[1] See letter from Richard S. Davis, Minneapolis, to Paul Gardner, NAMA, December 26, 1952, NAMA curatorial files. Lt. Richard Siebe Davis, USNR, was a curator (1948-56) and then director (1956-59) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. From January-May 1946 while assigned to Tokyo, Davis served as a “Monuments Man” in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section during World War II.

Richard S. Davis (1917–1985), Wayzata, MN, by December 26, 1952 [1];

 

Given by Davis to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] Lt. Richard Siebe Davis, USNR, was a curator (1948–56) and then director (1956–59) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. From January–May 1946 while assigned to Tokyo, Davis served as a “Monuments Man” in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section during World War II.
Published References

Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 5, as Besançon, dated 1827.

[George L. McKenna], The Fifty Years of Gifts to the Print Department, Part 1, 1933–1958: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), no. 15, as Besançon.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 285, as Vue d'une rue des faubourgs de Besançon.

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