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The Encampment

The Encampment

Artist/Maker (French, 1616–1671)
Date1636–38
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 22 5/16 in. (56.6 cm)
Frame: 29 3/8 × 29 3/8 in. (74.6 × 74.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of John J. Burling in memory of his wife, Marguerite Bensinger Burling (OC 1913)
Object number1957.7
Status
Not on view
ProvenanceLouis-Francois de Bourbon, Prince de Conti [1716-1776], Paris; (sale, Paris, March 15, 1779, no. 52).¹ (Sale, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, Paris, March 12, 1782, no. 112.² Alfred Barclay, Compton Manor, Berkshire, England (as by Karel Dujardin);³ Édouard Napoléon César Edmond Mortier, 5th duke of Trévise [1883-1946], Paris;⁴ purchased ca. 1946 by Julius H. Weitzner [1896-1984], New York; purchased 1957 by John J. Burling, Summit, New Jersey; by gift 1957 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH ¹"Un petit tableau de forme ronde dans la manière de Jean Miel. Il représente plusieurs figures, jouants sous une tente à la porte d'un Cabaret, et près de là un homme descendant de son cheval et qui raccommode son soulier. Diamètre 12 [sic] pouces. Toile"; frs. 144 to Dulac. ²"Des Bohemians: dans la partie gauche de Tableau l'on voit deux hommes jouans au dez; un autre debout, le corps nu, les regarde. Sur le devant l'on en voit un autre couché par terre, tournant la tête pour les voir; plus loin est un homme tenant son cheval par la bride pendant qu'il rejuste son soulier. Dans le fond l'on voit encore six figures. Le reste est terminé par une voûte de montagnes & autres accessoires;" frs. 110, to Dufour. Sale of collections of Dubois. ³According to photograph in Witt Library, London. ⁴Letter to from Julius Weitzner to Wolfgang Stechow recounts that the Duc de Trevise sent many of his paintings to New York before WWII for safekeeping, including the Bourdon, which he probably acquired in England "many years ago."Exhibition History
France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections
  • Réunion des museés nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris (January 29, 1982 - April 26, 1982 )
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 26, 1982 - August 22, 1982 )
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (September 18, 1982 - November 28, 1982 )
Seven Hundred Years of Western Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2001 - June 2, 2002 )
From Baroque to Neoclassicism: European Paintings, 1625-1825
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting, 1630-1800
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 19, 2005 - June 19, 2005 )
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (July 17, 2005 - October 16, 2005 )
Collections
  • European
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