Rest Before Nightfall, 1883

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 123.19 × 106.05 cm (48 1/2 × 41 3/4 in.)

framed: 160.66 × 144.15 × 13.97 cm (63 1/4 × 56 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2014.136.22

Artists / Makers

Jean-Charles Cazin (painter) French, 1841 - 1901

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Inscription

lower left: J. C. Cazin 1883

Provenance

R. Austin Robertson; (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 7-8 April 1892, no. 146, as Halte de Voyageurs avant la Nuit); C.P. Huntington, New York.[1] James F. Sutton, New York, by 1893.[2] I. Montaignac, Paris;[3] purchased 1909 by William A. Clark [1839-1925]; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as Halte de Voyageurs Avant la Nuit: "Cazin's Angelus"; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Annotated Robertson sales catalogue.

[2] Lent by Sutton to Special Exhibition of Works of J.-Ch. Cazin, New York, 1893, no. 50, as Halte de Voyageurs avant la Nuit.

[3] According to Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue, Part I, Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 120-121, no. 44.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Robertson, R. Austin
Sutton, James Fountain

Exhibition History

1893: Special Exhibition of Works of J.-Ch. Cazin, American Art Galleries, New York, 1893, no. 50, as Halte de Voyageurs avant la Nuit.

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April-16 July 1978, unnumbered cat.

1983: La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 14, repro.

1994: Monet to Matisse: Landscape Painting in France, 1874-1914, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 11 August-23 October 1994.

1995: Redefining Genre: French and American Painting 1850-1900, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Meridian Internatioal Center, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 21.

2011: A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 15 October 2011 - 20 February 2012, no catalogue.