Clearing in the Forest
- Date
- c.1870
- Material
- Oil on panel
- depicts
- Fontainebleau, Île-de-France region, France, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 9 1/2 x 13 7/8 in. (24.1 x 35.2 cm)
framed: 17 1/8 x 21 7/16 x 2 3/4 in. (43.5 x 54.5 x 7 cm) - Credit Line
- Bequest of Edward Mallinckrodt Sr.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 41:1974
NOTES
This lively view of scrubland in the French forest of Fontainebleau suggests an impending storm. The tiny figure of a peasant woman carrying a bundle of wood animates the scene. Narcisse Virgile Diaz de le Peña was a central figure among the colony of painters at nearby Barbizon, and first worked in Fontainebleau in the late 1830s. Thereafter, he was a prolific painter of the forest’s dense glades and expansive moors; his work was a particularly important influence on the landscapes of the young Auguste Renoir.
Provenance
- 1916
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, USA
1916 - 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) [1]
1974 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. [2]
Notes:
[1] Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. purchased the painting from M. Knoedler & Co. on April 28, 1916 [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].
[2] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 16, 1974.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, USA
1916 - 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) [1]
1974 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. [2]
Notes:
[1] Edward Mallinckrodt Sr. purchased the painting from M. Knoedler & Co. on April 28, 1916 [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].
[2] Minutes of the Acquisitions Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, April 16, 1974.
We regularly update records, which may be incomplete. If you have additional information, please contact us at provenance@slam.org.