Flock of Sheep in the Woods
Constant Troyon (1810 - 1865), c. 1825-1865
oil on panel, 30.9 cm x 45.3 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0320
- Dimensions
- 30.9 cm x 45.3 cm, 57 cm x 71 cm, 10 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Vente C. Troyon), lot 45 (Troupeau de moutons dans un bois), purchased by Hector Brame, Paris for FRF 1050, 22 January-1 February 1866; auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Collection m. Eugène de Miller), lot 32 (Troupeau de moutons dans un bois), remained unsold, 15 April 1876; sold by Hecht to Goupil & Cie, Paris for FRF 1400, 24 March 1880; sold by Goupil & Cie (no. 14277, Moutons (esquisse)) to Hendrik Willem Mesdag, The Hague for FRF 2300, 3 April 1880; 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
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 416
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 310