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Gabriel Alexandre Decamps
French, 1803–1860
The Poacher
c. 1847
A solitary poacher, his game bag stained with blood, walks through a snowy landscape clasping his hands in the cold. Decamps painted this image during a stay near the forest of Fontainebleau, a period when he felt frustrated by his lack of success in Paris. Perhaps the artist felt some sympathy for poachers, whose activities placed them on the edge of mainstream society.
Image Caption
Gabriel Alexandre Decamps, The Poacher, c. 1847, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.700
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 7 5/16 in. (24.1 x 18.6 cm)
Frame: 17 1/8 x 15 x 2 1/8 in. (43.5 x 38.1 x 5.4 cm)
Object Number
1955.700
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. 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. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Dewey F. Mosby. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860, 2 vol.. Ph.D. diss. Harvard, 1973. New York: Garland.. 1977.. 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. Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. 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
M. T. von Feldt; [Wildenstein, New York, sold to Clark, 27 Sept. 1945, as Le Braconnier]; Robert Sterling Clark (1945–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.