Man at Sea
Virginie Elodie Demont-Breton (1859 - 1935), 1888-1889
oil on canvas, 161 cm x 134 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij)
- Object number
- s0559S2026
- Dimensions
- 161 cm x 134 cm, 184.5 cm x 159 cm, 9 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist, Wissant to Thomas Barlow Walker, Minneapolis (MN) for FRF 15.000, 1889; transferred by Thomas Barlow Walker to the T.B. Walker Foundation, Minneapolis (MN), 1925; consigned by the T.B. Walker Foundation to auction New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries (Nineteenth Century Paintings & Watercolors), lot 38 (Her Man is on The Sea), purchased by Malcolm Forbes, New York (NY)/Far Hills (NJ) for USD 1.000, 3-4 June 1971; consigned by Malcolm Forbes to auction New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet (Important 19th Century European Paintings), lot 77, unsold, 25 February 1982; exchanged by Malcolm Forbes with The Fine Art Society, Londen, September 1984; Kurt E. Schon Fine Art, New Orleans (LA), by May 1984; consigned by a private collector, New York (NY) to auction New York, Christie’s (19th Century European Art), lot 45, purchased by European Art Gallery, Dallas (TX) for USD 85.000, 18 October 2000; sold by European Art Gallery to Stephanie and Michael Seay, Dallas (TX); sold by Stephanie and Michael Seay to Gallery 19C, Westlake (TX), 10 February 2026; sold by Gallery 19C to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 14 April 2026.
- artist
- Virginie Elodie Demont-Breton
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij)
Maastricht, MECC, TEFAF Maastricht, 14-19 March 2026
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Modern and Ancient Masters, January 1898
Baltimore (Maryland), Walters Art Gallery, [titel onbekend], c. 1890
Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon de 1889, 1 May 1889-1889, no. 796
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