Moret-sur-Loing, Evening Effect, no. 2

Henri Séraphin Louis Vian (1858–1904), Paris, by 1904 [1];

Inherited by his wife, Louise Vian (née Brousse, 1866–1914), Paris and Noisy-le-Grand, 1904–1914 [2];

Purchased at her posthumous sale, Tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins par Cecil Aldin, A. Guillaumin, H. Harpignies, H. Lebasque, N. Maufra, E. Méret, G. Ogier, C. Pissarro, Seyssaud, etc., 27 oeuvres importantes par Albert Lebourg, 6 tableaux par Fantin-Latour, Composant la Collection de M. Henri Vian . . . Par suite du décès de Mme Vian, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, November 27, 1919, lot 14, as Moret; effect du soir, by unknown buyer, 1919;

Sold, Gravures, Dessins, Sculptures, Peintures XIXe–XXe, Rossini S.A., Paris, June 25, 2002, lot 60, as Le Vieux-Samois;

Private collection, France [3];

With Hammer Galleries, New York, stock no. S27166-01, by 2003–October 6, 2006;

Purchased from Hammer Galleries, New York, by Min-Hwan (b. 1949) and Yu-Fan (b. 1951) Kao, Leawood, Kansas, October 6, 2006–June 11, 2021;

Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2021.

Notes

[1] Henri Vian was a collector and bronze maker, who owned an atelier and showroom in the Hôtel Salé (also called the Hôtel de Juigné), at 5 rue de Thorigny (today the Musée Picasso Paris). He was the son of Séraphin and Léonie Adélaïde (née Laplaine) Vian, both bronze makers. According to Vian’s certificate of decease, he died at his residence on
rue de Thorigny; it is possible the Vians lived in the grand Parisian mansion where the atelier and showrooms were. See Paris archives, décès, 1904, 07, 7D124, under no. 1468.

[2] Louise Vian and her family were living in Noisy-le-Grand, outside of Paris, by 1911, and Louise listed her profession as bronze dealer. See census, 1911, Noisy-le-grand, 93/100/15. The Vians had three children, who may have inherited the painting after their parents’ deaths: Henriette Marie Lucie Vian (1886–1917); Henri Louis Edmond Vian (1892–1943); and Paul Vian (1897–1944).

[3] For constituent, see 19th and 20th Century European Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Hammer Galleries, 2006), 16–17, (repro.), as Moret sur Loing.