The Fields, Plains of Gennevilliers, Study in Yellow and Green (Les Champs, plaine de Gennevilliers, étude en jaune et vert)

The Fields, Plains of Gennevilliers, Study in Yellow and Green (Les Champs, plaine de Gennevilliers, étude en jaune et vert)

c. 1884
Artist
Gustave Caillebotte, France, 1848 - 1894
Born: Paris, France
Work Locations: France
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
33.2017
Credit Line
Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

Gustave Caillebotte, The Fields, Plains of Gennevilliers, Study in Yellow and Green (Les Champs, plaine de Gennevilliers, étude en jaune et vert), about 1884. Oil paint on canvas; 21 ½ × 25 2/3  in. (54.6 × 65.2 cm). Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

Dimensions
image height: 21.5 in, 54.6100 cm; image width: 25.6875 in, 65.2463 cm; frame height: 26 7/8 in, 68.2625 cm; frame width: 31 3/16 in, 79.2163 cm; frame depth: 2 1/8 in, 5.3975 cm
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard [1867–1939], Paris), by 1922, stock no. 5203. (Galerie Vaumousse, Paris), about 1951. Sale, (Ader Picard Tajan, Paris) June 24, 1980, no. 23 (repr.); sale, (Sotheby’s, London), December 4, 1980, no. 524A (repr.); private collection (?). Sale, (Sotheby’s, New York), November 5, 2009, no. 113 (repr.). Collection of Frederic C. Hamilton [1927–2016], Denver; bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum, 2014.
Exhibition History
  • "The Impressionists of Paris"—American Art Galleries, New York, 04/1886 - 05/1886
  • National Academy of Design, New York, 05/1886 - 06/1886, no. 136
  • "Nature as Muse: Impressionist Landscapes from the Frederic C. Hamilton Collection and the Denver Art Museum"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013 - 02/09/2014
  • "Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye"—National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 06/28/2015 - 10/04/2015
  • Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 11/08/2015 - 02/14/2016