Going to Market on a Misty Morning

1851

A shepherdess emerges from the morning mist, leading a cow and a flock of unruly sheep down a country road. Behind her, a man on horseback, silhouetted against the light, is impeded in his progress. This scene of rural life became quite celebrated and Troyon made several versions of it, one of which drew admiration from a young Claude Monet when it was exhibited at the 1859 Paris Salon.

Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	25 11/16 x 20 11/16 in. (65.3 x 52.5 cm) Frame: 31 1/8 x 27 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (79.1 x 69.2 x 6.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.880
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Constant Troyon, Going to Market on a Misty Morning, 1851, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.880

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

[E. Le Roy, Paris, sold to Boussod, Valadon, Paris, 23 Jan. 1894, as En route pour le marché]; [Boussod, Valadon, Paris, sold to Auban-Moet, 10 Feb. 1894]; Camille Victor Auban-Moet, Epernay (1894–95, sold to Boussod, Valadon, 31 Dec. 1895 ); [Boussod, Valadon, Paris, sold to Gould the same day, 31 Dec. 1895, as En route pour le marché]¹; George Jay Gould, New York (1895–d. 1923);² [Scott & Fowles, New York; sold to Clark, 1 Feb. 1934, as Going to Market—Misty Morning]; Robert Sterling Clark (1934–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. See Goupil Stock Books, book 13, p. 161, no. 23292; and book 14, p. 91, no. 24280. 2. The painting may have gone to Gould’s second wife, Guinevere Sinclair Gould, although it did not appear in a sale of part of her collection (Rains Galleries, New York, 8–9 Nov. 1923). George Gould also had seven children with his first wife and three with his second; one of them could have inherited the painting.