Red-and-White Cow
Constant Troyon (1810 - 1865), after 1847
oil on canvas, 92.3 cm x 73.3 cm
Credits: The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
- Object number
- hwm0318
- Dimensions
- 92.3 cm x 73.3 cm, 131 cm x 112 cm, 13 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Vente C. Troyon), lot 99 (Vache rousse et blanche vue de trois quarts et de croupe), purchased by Hector Brame, Paris for FRF 1450, 22 January-1 February 1866; Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, The Hague, in or before 1903; Collection Museum Mesdag donated by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten to the State of the Netherlands, 14 May 1903; Rijksmuseum H.W. Mesdag, The Hague, from 1 August 1903; in trust of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, between 1934 and 1990; in trust of the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, from 1 April 1990; Museum Mesdag, in trust of the Van Gogh Museum Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1 July 1994, under the name of De Mesdag Collectie from 2011.
- artist
- Constant Troyon
- Credits
- The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Bodt, Saskia de, Leeman, Fred, Leeuw, Ronald de, Pennock, Hanna, Museum Mesdag : catalogue of paintings and drawings, Zwolle, 1996, p. 415
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 308