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Jan 8, 2013

Sunset Over the Hill

last half 1800s

Alphonse Legros

(French, 1837–1911)

France, 19th century

Watercolor and gouache

Support: Cream(1) laid paper lined with Japanese paper

Sheet: 44 x 36.4 cm (17 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.); Secondary Support: 44 x 36.4 cm (17 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.)

Gift of Frederick M. Mayer 1969.276

Location

not on view

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Inscription

signed, lower right, in brown ink: A. Legros [underlined] ; SECONDARY SUPPORT (fragment, now removed), in blue ink: A Legros . / Coucher / Coucher [crossed out] de soleil sur la colline

Provenance

[Herbert N. Bier]

Exhibition history

CMA, Lepère, Legros, and Buhot (May 1-Sep. 23, 1984).

CMA, The Impressionist Aesthetic (Aug. 10-Oct. 31, 1982).

CMA, Visions of Landscape: East and West (Feb. 17-Mar. 21, 1982).

CMA, Brush Drawings (Mar. 3-May 10, 1981).

CMA, 17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings (May 31-Aug. 19, 1979).

CMA, "Gallery J--Drawings" (July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976?) (is among a list of drawings in Gallery J, this list being found at the end of a list of prints that were in other galleries from July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976 for a little show called "The Vocabulary of Prints"--see exhs. file).

CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (Dec. 1, 1970-Jan. 31, 1971; re-opened Mar. 16, 1971).

CMA, The Year in Review for 1970 (Feb. 10-Mar. 7, 1971), cma Bulletin 58 (1971), p. 68 no. 88.

Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

The Impressionist Aesthetic. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-October 31, 1982).

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