Lépine's debt to the teachings of Corot is evident in this intimate view of a courtyard, with its soft atmosphere, delicate harmonies, and poetic mood. The serene and stately composition is framed by close, inward-leaning trees and overgrown foliage--also reminiscent of Corot.
Details
- Artist Name: Stanislas-Victor-Édouard Lépine (French, 1835-1892)
- Title: A Courtyard on the rue de la Fontinelle
- Date: 1874-1878
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 17-1/2 x 12-1/2 in. (44.5 x 31.8 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
- Accession Number: F.1967.1.P
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
[Arthur Tooth & Sons, London];
Hervitt, London.
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968), London and Dublin, by 13 March 1940 (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 28 June 1967, lot 1, as Personnages dans la Cour d’un Château for £ 6,500 to);
[K. J. Hewett] for;
The Norton Simon Foundation.
Lépine
- Paris, Galerie La Bodinière, 1895-01 to 1895-01
[on loan]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1969 to 1969
[on loan]
- Fullerton Library, 1967-10-20 to 1969-04-27
Reinstallation of South Wing
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-10-07 to 1995-08-13
Three Centuries of French Art: Selections from The Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Foundation_2
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1974-10-19 to 1976-06-15
- Schmit, Robert; and Manuel Schmit, Stanislaus Lèpine 1835-1892: Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, no. 221 p. 94
- Kennedy, Brian P., Irish Arts Review, 1987, p. 50
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 355 p. 288
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