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Bohemians Going to a Fête
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876)
about 1844
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
101 x 81.3 cm (39 3/4 x 32 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Susan Cornelia Warren
Accession Number03.600
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsLower left: N. DIAZ
Provenance1844, exhibited by the artist at the Salon and sold to Paul Périer, Paris [see note 1]; December 19, 1846, Périer sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, lot 4, sold for fr. 2900. 1877, Mme. Ernest André (d. 1877), Paris [see note 2]; probably by descent to her stepson, Edouard André (b. 1833 - d. 1894), Paris [see note 3]. With Arnold et Tripp, Paris [see note 4]. By 1893, Susan Cornelia Clarke (Mrs. Samuel Dennis) Warren (b. 1825 - d. 1901), Boston [see note 5]; January 8, 1903, Mrs. S. D. Warren sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 113, to Samuel Putnam Avery, New York, for the MFA for $12,700. (Accession Date: January 13, 1903)
NOTES:
[1] See Pierre and Rolande Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (Paris, 2006), vol. 2, p. 333, cat. no. 2045.
[2] Roger Ballou, "Diaz," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1877, p. 294, engraving ill. p. 298. It is possible that her husband, Ernest André (b. 1803 - d. 1864), purchased it at the Périer sale in 1846.
[3] Edouard André lent "La descente de bohémiens" by Diaz de la Peña to the Exposition des oeuvres de N. Diaz de la Peña (Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, May 1877), cat. no. 6. This was very probably the present painting, which had belonged to his stepmother who had died earlier in the year. The following year, Edouard André purchased a similar composition, also called "Descente des Bohémiens," at the Laurent-Richard sale, May 23-25, 1878, lot 21.
[4] Notes in the MFA curatorial file identify a label on the reverse of the painting as coming from Arnold et Tripp.
[5] She lent the painting to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, Department K, Fine Arts, cat. no. 2913.
NOTES:
[1] See Pierre and Rolande Miquel, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (Paris, 2006), vol. 2, p. 333, cat. no. 2045.
[2] Roger Ballou, "Diaz," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1877, p. 294, engraving ill. p. 298. It is possible that her husband, Ernest André (b. 1803 - d. 1864), purchased it at the Périer sale in 1846.
[3] Edouard André lent "La descente de bohémiens" by Diaz de la Peña to the Exposition des oeuvres de N. Diaz de la Peña (Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, May 1877), cat. no. 6. This was very probably the present painting, which had belonged to his stepmother who had died earlier in the year. The following year, Edouard André purchased a similar composition, also called "Descente des Bohémiens," at the Laurent-Richard sale, May 23-25, 1878, lot 21.
[4] Notes in the MFA curatorial file identify a label on the reverse of the painting as coming from Arnold et Tripp.
[5] She lent the painting to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, Department K, Fine Arts, cat. no. 2913.