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| Keywords: Constant Troyon - Coast near Villers - Walters 37993.jpg Troyon was the third generation of his family to be employed at the Sèvres Manufactory decorating porcelains In his spare time he began to sketch in the Fontainebleau Forest where he met other painters who would become associated with the Barbizon school Troyon was a gifted marine painter and in the early 1850s acquired a house at Villers which he named The Academy of Landscape He worked here closely with several young painters including Eugène Boudin After seeing the works of the Dutch 17th-century masters Paulus Potter and Albertus Cuyp during a tour of the Netherlands and Belgium in 1847 Troyon decided to specialize in animal genre subjects In this view of an impending storm near the resort village of Villers-sur-Mer the artist presents a cross section of society a peasant couple riding on ponies equipped with baskets for carrying seaweed a sportsman from town strolling with his gun and hunters erecting fowling nets ca 1859 Oil on canvas cm 67 4 95 7 Framed cm 106 52 135 41 15 88 accession number 37 993 32030 Mrs Mary J Morgan Sale New York March 3-5 1886 no 72 Mrs S D Warren Sale American Art Association Boston January 8-9 1903 no 115 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1903 C Troyon signed in black at lower left Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 Triumph of French Painting Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute Dayton 2000-2002 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 Impressionists by the Sea Royal Academy of Arts London; The Phillips Collection Washington; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Hartford 2007-2008 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 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Jack S Blanton Museum of Art Austin 2010-2011 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Constant Troyon Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1850s paintings from France | ||||
