Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1808–1876)
La Mare aux Vipères
signed and dated 'N. Diaz. 73.' (lower right)
oil on panel
12 ½ x 16 in. (31.8 x 41 cm)
Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1808–1876)
La Mare aux Vipères
signed and dated 'N. Diaz. 73.' (lower right)
oil on panel
12 ½ x 16 in. (31.8 x 41 cm)
Morris K. Jesup (1830-1908), New York, until 1908. Maria DeWitt Jesup, his wife, 1908–1914. By whom gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914.
C. Sterling and M. M. Salinger, French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 2, XIX Century, New York, 1966, pp. 72–73, illustrated, as A Pool in a Meadow. P. Miquel and R. Miquel, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1807–1876), Paris, 2006, vol. 2, pp. 125, 556, no. 811, illustrated.
Wilmington, N.C., Wilmington WPA Museum of Art, Paintings by Old Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 April – 4 May 1941, no. 8, as The Pool.
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