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Two Children in a Landscape
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
31.1 x 35.6 cm (12 1/4 x 14 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball
Accession Number23.542
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceOctober 13, 1894, sold by Lesser Adrian Lesser (dealer; b. 1849 - d. 1911), London, to M. Knoedler and Co., Paris, London and New York (stock no. 7658) [see note 1]; November 26, 1894, sold by Knoedler to Clara Bertram Kimball (b. 1838 - d. 1920), Boston; by inheritance to her husband, David P. Kimball (b. 1833 - d. 1923), Boston 1923, bequest of David P. Kimball to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: November 1, 1923)
NOTES:
[1] M. Knoedler and Co. records, Getty Provenance Index, PI Record no. K-4142 (stock book 4, no. 7658, p. 192), as William Beechey, "Two Children in a Landscape." [2] In 1923 David P. Kimball bequeathed forty paintings to the MFA in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball. He noted in his will that these were "from the collection made by her and bequeathed to me."
NOTES:
[1] M. Knoedler and Co. records, Getty Provenance Index, PI Record no. K-4142 (stock book 4, no. 7658, p. 192), as William Beechey, "Two Children in a Landscape." [2] In 1923 David P. Kimball bequeathed forty paintings to the MFA in memory of his wife, Clara Bertram Kimball. He noted in his will that these were "from the collection made by her and bequeathed to me."