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Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1808–1876)
La Mare aux Vipères
Details
Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1808–1876)
La Mare aux Vipères
signed and dated 'N. Diaz. 73.' (lower right)
oil on panel
12 ½ x 16 in. (31.8 x 41 cm)
La Mare aux Vipères
signed and dated 'N. Diaz. 73.' (lower right)
oil on panel
12 ½ x 16 in. (31.8 x 41 cm)
Provenance
Morris K. Jesup (1830-1908), New York, until 1908.
Maria DeWitt Jesup, his wife, 1908–1914.
By whom gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914.
Maria DeWitt Jesup, his wife, 1908–1914.
By whom gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914.
Literature
C. Sterling and M. M. Salinger, French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 2, XIX Century, New York, 1966, pp. 72–73, illustrated, as A Pool in a Meadow.
P. Miquel and R. Miquel, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807–1876), Paris, 2006, vol. 2, pp. 125, 556, no. 811, illustrated.
P. Miquel and R. Miquel, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807–1876), Paris, 2006, vol. 2, pp. 125, 556, no. 811, illustrated.
Exhibited
Wilmington, N.C., Wilmington WPA Museum of Art, Paintings by Old Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 April – 4 May 1941, no. 8, as The Pool.