The Edge of the Pond
- Date
- 1873
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 206
- Dimensions
- 19 3/4 x 33 1/2 in. (50.2 x 85.1 cm)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Edward Mallinckrodt Sr.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 33:1974
NOTES
This painting is notable for its gestural brushwork and touches of color, as in the bright green hills in the distance. Like many of Charles-François Daubigny’s pictures, the scene is animated by the figure of a washerwoman. The artist’s paintings were often criticized for being “impressions” rather than fully realized works. Daubigny was an important early supporter of the Impressionists, and his own work suggests the influence of the younger artists.
Provenance
- 1917
Mrs. Harold Thorne [1]
1917/01/17 -
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, USA, purchased at auction of "Highly Valuable Modern Paintings," The American Art Association, New York, NY, January 16-17, 1917, lot no. 121 [2]
1917/01/19 - 1974
Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. (1845-1928), St. Louis, MO, purchased from M. Knoedler & Co.; Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. (1878-1967) and Elizabeth Baker Elliot Mallinckrodt (1884-1973) [3]
1974 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. [4]
Notes:
[1] A 1917 auction catalogue indicates that this painting, titled "The Edge of the Pond", came from Goupil & Co. and George Petit Galleries, Paris, by order of Mrs. Harold Thorne, daughter of the late H.S. Wilson ["Highly Valuable Modern Paintings," The American Art Association, New York, January 16-17, 1917, lot no. 121].
[2] M. Knoedler & Co. purchased this painting at the auction "Highly Valuable Modern Paintings" on January 17, 1917, and entered it in their inventory as stock no. 14050 [Getty Provenance Index; correspondence from the Getty, SLAM document files].
[3] Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. purchased the painting from M. Knoedler & Co. on January 19, 1917 [invoice, SLAM document files]. When he died in 1928 he left his collection to the Museum under the condition that it stay in the care of his son and daughter-in-law, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. and Elizabeth Baker Elliot Mallinckrodt, until their deaths [letter from Peter Belin dated March 8, 1965, SLAM document files].
[4] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 16, 1974.
Mrs. Harold Thorne [1]
1917/01/17 -
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, USA, purchased at auction of "Highly Valuable Modern Paintings," The American Art Association, New York, NY, January 16-17, 1917, lot no. 121 [2]
1917/01/19 - 1974
Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. (1845-1928), St. Louis, MO, purchased from M. Knoedler & Co.; Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. (1878-1967) and Elizabeth Baker Elliot Mallinckrodt (1884-1973) [3]
1974 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. [4]
Notes:
[1] A 1917 auction catalogue indicates that this painting, titled "The Edge of the Pond", came from Goupil & Co. and George Petit Galleries, Paris, by order of Mrs. Harold Thorne, daughter of the late H.S. Wilson ["Highly Valuable Modern Paintings," The American Art Association, New York, January 16-17, 1917, lot no. 121].
[2] M. Knoedler & Co. purchased this painting at the auction "Highly Valuable Modern Paintings" on January 17, 1917, and entered it in their inventory as stock no. 14050 [Getty Provenance Index; correspondence from the Getty, SLAM document files].
[3] Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. purchased the painting from M. Knoedler & Co. on January 19, 1917 [invoice, SLAM document files]. When he died in 1928 he left his collection to the Museum under the condition that it stay in the care of his son and daughter-in-law, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. and Elizabeth Baker Elliot Mallinckrodt, until their deaths [letter from Peter Belin dated March 8, 1965, SLAM document files].
[4] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 16, 1974.
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