Landscape, Ivry-sur-Seine

Alternate TitleLandscape, Île-de-France

Alternate TitlePaysage d'Île de France

Artist Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841 - 1927)

Dateca. 1874

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 19 3/8 × 25 3/4 inches (49.23 × 65.41 cm)
Framed: 29 × 35 1/8 × 3 1/8 inches (73.66 × 89.22 × 7.94 cm)

Credit LinePromised gift of Robert L. and Barbara Bloch in honor of his parents, Henry and Marion Bloch, and the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Object number27-1989

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On view

Gallery Location

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Exhibition History

Naissance de l’impressionnisme , Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, May 3–September 1, 1974, no. 92, as Paysage d’Ile-de-France.

VIIIe Biennale des Antiquaires, Galerie Schmit, Paris, September 23–October 10, 1976, no. 20, as Paysage d’Ile-de-France.

Aspects de la Peinture Française: XIXe et XXe Siècles , Galerie Schmit, Paris, May 10–June 30, 1978, no. 31, as Paysage d’Ile-de-France.

Manet to Matisse: Impressionist Masters from the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection , The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9–September 9, 2007, no. 12, as Landscape, Île de France (Paysage d’Île de France).

Magnificent Gifts for the 75th , The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 13–April 4, 2010, no cat.

Impressionist France Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19 2013–February 9, 2014; The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, March 18–July 14, 2014, no. 139, as Landscape, Île de France.

Among Friends: Guillaumin, Cézanne, and Pissarro, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 28, 2021–January 23, 2022, no cat.

Gallery Label

Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin made this painting from a series of earlier sketches of the sweeping suburban countryside, roughed out during breaks while working for the Paris railway. Here, the billowing smokestacks of a distant factory are set against a rural scene of plowmen and their horses. Accents of colors, such as the red roof in the middle ground, animate the scene. Although Guillaumin was a central member of the Impressionists, he has been largely overlooked in studies of the period. He was close to Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne and painted with both these artists in the 1870s.

Provenance

With Adolfo Bullrich y Cía. Ltda. S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, by September 20–23, 1971;

Purchased from Bullrich, Arte y Antigüedades, September 20–23, 1971, lot 27, as Paisaje de los alrededores de Paris [1];

Saussure Collection, Paris;

Galerie Schmit, Paris, by 1974–June 8, 1978 [2];

Purchased from Galerie Schmit, Paris, by Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bloch, June 8, 1978 [3];

NOTES:

[1] Seller and buyer is currently unknown, but see annotated sales catalogue in the Collection of Frick Art Reference Library, New York, which says “3800” in the left margin.

[2] For purchase date, see correspondence from Robert Schmit to Robert Bloch, June 8, 1978, NAMA curatorial files.

[3] The painting was purchased from Galerie Schmidt by Robert Bloch in 1978 with his first wife Lisa. Robert Bloch and his second wife Barbara have promised the painting in honor of his parents, Henry and Marion Bloch, and the 75th anniversary of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. See correspondence from Robert Bloch to Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Senior Curator, European Arts, NAMA, August 25, 2020, NAMA, curatorial object files.

Published References

Arte y Antig ü edades (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Adolfo Bullrich y Cía. Ltda. S.A., 1971), unpaginated, (repro.), as Paisaje de los alrededores de Paris.

Advertisement, Connoisseur 177, no. 714 (August 1971): 19, (repro.), as Paysage aux environs de Paris.

Naissance de l’impressionnisme , exh. cat. (Bordeaux, France: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1974), 130–31, (repro.), as Paysage d’Ile-de-France.

VIIIe Biennale des Antiquaires , exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Schmit, 1976), unpaginated, (repro.), as Paysage d’Ile-de-France.

Aspects de la Peinture Française: XIXe et XXe Siècles , exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Schmit, 1978), 33, (repro.), as Paysage d’Ile-de-France [sic].

Richard R. Brettell and Joachim Pissarro, Manet to Matisse: Impressionist Masters from the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection , exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 14, 74–78, 158, (repro.), as Landscape, Île de France (Paysage d’Île de France).

“75Nelson-Atkins Patrons Give 400 Extraordinary Works of Art to Commemorate Museum’s 75^th Anniversary,”Art and Artworks (February 2008): unpaginated, asLandscape, Ile [sic] de France (Paysage d’Ile [ sic] de France).

“A 75^th Anniversary Celebrated with Gifts of 400 Works of Art,” Art Tattler International (February 2008): unpaginated, (repro.), as Landscape, Île de France (Paysage d’Île de France).

Alice Thorson, “Gift will leave lasting impression,” Kansas City Star 130, no. 143 (February 7, 2010): G2.

Alice Thorson, “Nelson’s ‘Impressionist France’ offers an insider’s guide to a country in transition,” Kansas City Star (November 8, 2013): https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article331233/Nelsons-Impressionist-France-offers-an-insiders-guide-to-a-country-in-transition.html , as Landscape, Ile [sic] de France.

Simon Kelly and April M. Watson, Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Art Museum, 2013), 25, 236–37 (repro.), as Landscape, Île de France.

Catherine Futter et al., Bloch Galleries: Highlights from the Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 79, (repro.), as Landscape, Île de France.

Menachem Wecker, “Jewish Philanthropist Establishes Kansas City as Cultural Mecca,” Forward (March 14, 2017), http://forward.com/culture/365264/jewish-philanthropist-establishes-kansas-city-as-cultural-mecca/ [repr. in, Menachem Wecker, “Kansas City Collection Is A Chip Off the Old Bloch,” Forward (March 17, 2017): 20–22], as Landscape.

Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “A Refuge of Peaceful Meditation,” KC Studio 12, no. 5 (September/October 2020): 74– 75, (repro.), as Landscape, Île de France.

Danielle Hampton Cullen, “Armand Guillaumin, Landscape, Ivry-sur-Seine, ca. 1874,” catalogue entry, and Diana M. Jaskierny, “Armand Guillaumin, Landscape, Ivry-sur-Seine, ca. 1874,” technical entry in French Paintings and Pastels, 1600–1945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2022), https://doi.org/10.37764/78973.5.621.

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