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Constant Troyon
View at La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, near Orléans1840

Not on view
Horizontal oil painting of a wooded rural landscape with tall trees, a winding dirt path, and small figures including walkers, a seated man, and workers near a thatched structure, with a hazy plain in the distance
Artist or Maker
Constant Troyon
France, Sèvres, 1810-1865
Title
View at La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, near Orléans
Place Made
France
Date Made
1840
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 50 13/16 × 75 9/16 in. (129.06 × 191.93 cm) Frame: 65 × 90 1/4 × 4 in. (165.1 × 229.24 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.91.36
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Private collection, France (Lyon?).(1) (Sale, Monaco, Sotheby’s, 16 June 1990, lot 623). [Bruno Meissner, Zürich, Apr. 1991, to]; LACMA.

Footnote

(1) The sales catalogue notes that the painting was in a private collection in Lyon for generations, after having been purchased in the mid-nineteenth century at an exhibition in Lyon.


Selected Bibliography
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1991. vol. 28-29, no. 12-1 (December, 1990-January, 1992).

  • Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.


  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.