Village by the Sea in Brittany, c. 1880

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 91

Medium

oil on cardboard on hardboard

Dimensions

overall: 25.08 × 32.39 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

framed: 37.15 × 44.45 × 3.81 cm (14 5/8 × 17 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2012.89.7

Artists / Makers

Odilon Redon (artist) French, 1840 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: ODILON REDON

Provenance

(Wildenstein and Co., New York); purchased by 1966 by Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2012.

Associated Names

Mellon, Rachel Lambert, Estate of

Exhibition History

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no. 79, repro.

2013: Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016.

Bibliography

1992: Wildenstein, Alec. Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Volume III, Fleurs et paysages. 4 vols. Paris, 1992-1998: 3(1996): 289, no. 1853.