The Window (La Fenêtre)

The Window (La Fenêtre)

about 1865-1870
Artist
Eva Gonzalès, French, 1847-1883
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
2017.131
Credit Line
Painting and Sculpture Department acquisition funds with additional funds from Friends of Painting and Sculpture

Eva Gonzalès, The Window (La Fenêtre), About 1865–70. Oil paint on canvas; 21 × 17 1/8 in. (53.34 × 43.5 cm). Denver Art Museum: Painting and Sculpture Department acquisition funds with additional funds from Friends of Painting and Sculpture, 2017.131

Dimensions
image height: 21 in, 53.34 cm; image width: 17 1/8 in, 43.4975 cm; frame depth: 4 3/4 in, 12.065 cm; frame height: 33 1/4 in, 84.455 cm; frame width: 29 1/4 in, 74.295 cm
Inscription
[lower left] Eva Gonzalès
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
(Hôtel Drouot, Paris), sale, 20 February 1885 (lot 36, Éva Gonzalès Sale). Private Collection, France; Private Collection, Paris; (Sotheby's, New York), sale, 4 May 2011 (lot 168, Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale [Sale N08742]); (Richard Green Gallery) London; purchased by the Denver Art Museum, 2017. Provenance research is on-going at the Denver Art Museum and we will post information as it becomes available. Please e-mail provenance@denverartmuseum.org, if you have questions, or if you have additional information to share with us.
Exhibition History
  • Paris, Salons de la Vie Moderne, Éva Gonzalès, 1885, no. 27
  • “AFA Women Artists, Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism” — Denver Art Museum, 10/21/2017 – 1/14/2018