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Sand Dunes at Sunset

Jean Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901)
about 1880

Medium/Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 73.3 x 60 cm (28 7/8 x 23 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Robert Dawson Evans Collection
Accession Number17.3273
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsLower right: J.C. CAZIN
ProvenanceJune 16, 1887, possibly sold by Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, to T. J. Blakeslee and Co., New York [see note 1]. 1892, J. Abner Harper, New York; February, 24, 1892, Harper sale, Fifth Avenue Auction Galleries, New York, lot 156, to George N. Tyner, Holyoke, MA; February 1, 1901, Tyner sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 60 to Robert Dawson Evans (b. 1843 - d. 1909), Boston and his wife, Maria Antoinette Hunt Evans (b. 1845 - d. 1917), Boston; 1917, bequest of Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 1, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] This may be the Cazin painting "Dans les Dunes" measuring 73 x 60 cm. See Getty Provenance Index, Goupil Records, PI number G-27709 (stock book 11, no. 18644, p. 211). www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance.