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| Keywords: Constant Troyon - Cattle Drinking - Walters 3759.jpg Troyon is best known for his animal paintings but in fact specialized in landscape painting in his early career This picturesque view shows a scene on the banks of the Touques River in Normandy where he painted regularly in the 1850s together with Eugène Boudin and Emile van Marcke The sun is directly overhead fringing the clouds shimmering on the water and illuminating the backs of the cows Troyon's mastery of light was admired by the young Claude Monet So highly regarded was this river scene that it was included in an exhibition held in 1883 in the galleries of Georges Petit Paris to celebrate the world's alleged One Hundred Masterpieces 1851 oil oak panel place depicted Touques River cm 78 4 51 8 ; size cm 92 71 65 41 9 53 accession number 37 59 14245 Suermondt date and mode of acquisition unknown Suermondt Collection Sale February 1877 Narischkine date and mode of acquisition unknown Narischkine Collection Sale 1883 no 82 Gustave Viot date and mode of acquisition unknown Gustave Viot Collection Sale Paris May 25 1886 no 9 William T Walters city Baltimore Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1886 in black bottom left C Troyon - 1851 ~ signature/date Cent chefs d'oeuvres des collections parisiennes Galerie Georges Petit Paris 1883 The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye American Art Gallery New York New York 1889-1890 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 The Road to Impressionism Landscapes from Corot to Manet The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2004-2005 The Road to Impressionism Barbizon Landscapes from the Walters Art Museum The Dixon Gallery and Gardens Memphis; The Frick Art Historical Center Pittsburgh 2008-2009 Walters Art Museum license 2D Constant Troyon French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Toucques River 1850s paintings from France 1851 paintings Cattle on roads | ||||
