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Landscape with an Old Dam

Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819–1916)
1882

Medium/Technique Oil on paperboard mounted on panel
Dimensions 40.0 x 33.3 cm (15 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession Number39.650
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsLower leftr: hjharpignies. 82
ProvenanceBefore 1938, Grace M. Edwards (d. 1938), Boston; 1939, bequest of Grace M. Edwards to the MFA. [see note 1] (Accession Date: October 11, 1939)

NOTES:
[1] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned