Sheep
Constant Troyon (1810 - 1865), c. 1854
oil on canvas, 59.8 cm x 73.5 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0319
- Dimensions
- 59.8 cm x 73.5 cm, 97 cm x 106.5 cm, 14 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Vente C. Troyon), lot 163 (Groupe de moutons), purchased by Bucquet for FRF 1010, 22 January-1 February 1866; sold by De Gheus to Goupil & Cie, Paris for FRF 6700, 21 January 1881; sold the same day by Goupil & Cie (no. 15085, Troupeau de moutons) to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for FRF 7700; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Constant Troyon
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Kōbe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Vincent & Theo van Gogh, 7 September-4 November 2002
Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Vincent & Theo van Gogh, 5 July-25 August 2002
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 64, 415-416
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 308-309
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., De Mesdag Collectie, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 37-38
Dijk, Maite van, Suijver, Renske, Fitski, M., Smits, C., The Mesdag Collection, Amsterdam, 2011, p. 37-38