Landscape: PD.20-1952

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Landscape

Maker(s)

Entities

Painting

Notes

History note: (?) family of Mette-Sophie Gad wife of Gaugin; with the Goldsmidt Gallery, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1920; Bargel Sale, Frankfurt, 15 March 1923, no. 70; Dr. Guggenheim, Berlin; with C. Marshall Spink, London, who sold it to Messrs. Marlborough Fine Art, London; bought from them by the donor, 1952, for presentation to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Legal notes

The Very Rev. E. Milner-White, C.B.E., D.S.O., Dean of York, in devoted memory of his mother, Annie Booth Milner-White

Measurements and weight

Height: 50.5 cm
Width: 81.6 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1952) by Milner-White, Eric

Dating

Production date: AD 1873

School or Style

French

Materials used in production

Oil paint

Components of the work

Support composed of canvas

Techniques used in production

Painting (image-making) : Oil on canvas

Inscription or legends present

Text: p. gaugin
Location: Lower left
Type: Signature

Text: 7 : 73
Location: Lower left
Type: Date

Inscription present: label of Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.

Text: No. 24 in our Exhibition of French Masters of the 19th and 20th. Centuries, June-August 1950
Location: Frame
Type: Label

Text: WRINS
Location: Frame
Method of creation: White chalk

Text: 8000 kroner
Location: Stretcher
Method of creation: Blue chalk

Text: 67R
Location: Stretcher
Method of creation: Blue chalk

Text: 14
Location: Stretcher
Method of creation: Blue chalk
Type: Number

Text: (?) 508
Location: Stretcher
Method of creation: Blue chalk
Type: Number

Text: 1092 / 70
Location: Stretcher
Method of creation: Blue chalk
Type: Number

Text: 99 (??) (remains of a printed label, with other partial characters)
Location: Verso
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Catalogue, French Masters of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
[Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960] page(s): 992
Sugli inizi di Gaugin page(s): 48
Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, French, German and Spanish page(s): 176
Gaugin page(s): 3
'The dating of Gaugin's Early Paintings' page(s): 308, 310
'The dating of Gaugin's early painting' page(s): 579-580

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.20-1952
Primary reference Number: 2676
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 3 March 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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