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Charles-François Daubigny
French, 1817–1878
The Bridge between Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise
1867
In Daubigny’s view of Beaumont, a town north of Paris, the thirteenth-century church tower rises above a cluster of buildings. A low stone bridge links Beaumont to the more industrial town of Persan on the opposite bank of the River Oise, but the artist has deliberately omitted any sign of modernity. Instead, the two figures watching over a line of geese in the foreground give the scene a pastoral quality.
Image Caption
Charles-François Daubigny, The Bridge between Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise, 1867, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.694
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
15 1/8 x 26 7/16 in. (38.4 x 67.1 cm)
Frame: 24 3/8 x 35 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (61.9 x 89.5 x 7 cm)
Object Number
1955.694
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
Select Bibliography
Paris.. Exposition des Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvre.. 1892.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Fidell-Beaufort, Madeleine, and Janine Bailly-Herzberg. Daubigny. Paris: Geoffroy-Dechaume, 1975. Robert Hellebranth.. Charles-François Daubigny, 1817-1878.. Morges: Editions Matute.. 1976.. Faison, S. Lane, Jr. The Art Museums of New England: Massachusetts. Vol. 2. Revised edition of Faison, Guide to the Art Museums of New England, 1958. Godine Guide 3. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. John Merriman.. French Cities in the Nineteenth Century.. London: Hutchinson.. 1982.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Christian Lassalle.. Charles-François Daubigny.. Paris: Editions du Valhermeil.. 1990.. Thomson, Richard. Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, Landscape and Rural Labor. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Herbert Press; New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1990. Michel Pericard.. Les Peintres et le Val d'Oise.. Paris: Sogemo.. 1992.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Millereau, Fabrice. Beaumont-sur-Oise: images de rues, 150 ans d'histoire beaumontoise. Pontoise: Municipality of Beaumont-sur-Oise, 2000. Marie-Paule Défossez.. Les Grands Peintres du Val-d'Oise.. Cergy-Pontoise: Editions du Valhermeil.. 2000.. Robert L. Herbert. From Millet to Leger: Essay in Social Art Hisory. Yale University Press. 2002:pp. 7, 43. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Delagarde (in 1892); [Georges Petit, Paris, sold to Knoedler, 26 Apr. 1927]; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 9 June 1927, as Le Pont de Persan-Beaumont]; Robert Sterling Clark (1927–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.