Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
18-1/2 x 26 in. (canvas) 26-7/8 x 34-7/16 x 3-3/8 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Signed and dated on a stone imagery at the bottom center right: F. Boucher | 1761
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herman C. Krannert
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color Palette
Provenance
Christian IV, Herzog von Zweibrūcken (Duc de Deux-Ponts) [1722-1775]; his posthumous sale at Hôtel d’Aligre, Paris, France, in 1778;{1} Madame de Polès, Paris; Sale of her collection at (Galeries Georges Petit, Paris) in June 1927;{2} (Lennie Davis Gallery, Paris, France). (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, New York) by 1960;{3} Mr. and Mrs. Herman C. Krannert [1887-1972], Indianapolis, Indiana; given to the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1960 (60.248). ------- {1} Hôtel d’Aligre, Paris, Catalogue de Tableaux Originaux des Grands Mâitres des Trois Ecoles, qui ornoient un des Palais de feu son Altesse Moneigneur Christient, Duc des Deux Ponts, Paris, 6 April 1778, lot no. 74. For more on this owner who was a friend and patron of Boucher, see François Boucher, 1703-1770, Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, 1986, catalogue no. 73 (illustration), pp. 289-292. {2} Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Objets d’art et de magnifique ameublement du XVIIIe siècle, 22-24 June 1927, lot no. 14 (illustration) {3} See letter from Rosenberg to Wilbur Peat, Director of the John Herron Art Institute, 6 June 1960 in IMA Historical File (60.248).
Gallery Labels
This scene is inspired by picturesque motifs of the French countryside: the herdsman, the woman fishing, the artfully tumbledown ruins, lush vegetation, and radiant sky.
Boucher, the foremost decorative painter of the Rococo era, was also a distinguished painter of landscapes. Indeed, the most common function of landscape painting in 18th-century France was decorative. Landscape was still regarded as a lowly genre, not to be taken as seriously as portraiture or history painting.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Chengdu Museum
September 28, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Chengdu Museum
September 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting
National Gallery of Art
May 21, 2017 - August 20, 2017
The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting 1630-1800
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
July 17, 2005 - October 16, 2005
The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting 1630-1800
Allen Memorial Art Museum
March 19, 2005 - June 19, 2005
Indianapolis Museum of Art
February 24, 1996 - April 2, 1996
Francois Boucher, 1703-1770
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
September 19, 1986 - January 7, 1987
Francois Boucher, 1703-1770
Detroit Institute of Arts
May 27, 1986 - August 17, 1986
Francois Boucher, 1703-1770
Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 17, 1986 - May 4, 1986
The Rococo Age: 18th Century French Painting and Drawing
High Museum of Art
October 5, 1983 - January 1, 1984
Boucher Exhibition
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
July 3, 1982 - August 22, 1982
Boucher Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
April 24, 1982 - June 22, 1982
Three Masters of Landscape - Fragonard, Robert, and Boucher
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
November 10, 1981 - December 28, 1981
Francois Boucher
Wildenstein & Company, Inc.
November 12, 1980 - December 19, 1980
Indianapolis Museum of Art
December 8, 1976 - January 9, 1977
Dates Unknown
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