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The Path of Nature: Collecting Off the Beaten Path

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Collector Wheelock Whitney discusses interest in art collecting, his acquisition history, and his travels. Whitney focused on collecting French landscape paintings at a time when few others were, which allowed him to build a unique group of artworks.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850, on view January 22–April 21, 2013.

Recorded February 10, 2013

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Jan Fyt  (Flemish, 1611–1661)

Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (60.3 x 76.8 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Purchase, 1871
Accession Number:
71.43

This artwork is not on display

  • Catalogue Entry

    Forthcoming

  • Provenance

    Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré (Willi Bürger), Paris (until d. 1869); private collection, Paris (until 1870); William T. Blodgett, Paris (from 1870; sold half share to Johnston); William T. Blodgett, Paris, and John Taylor Johnston, New York (1870–71; sold to MMA)

  • Exhibition History

    New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Taste of the Seventies," April 2–September 10, 1946, no. 12.

    New York. Union League Club. "Exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 23, 1969–January 2, 1970, checklist no. 2.

  • References

    F[ritz von]. Harck. "Berichte und Mittheilungen aus Sammlungen und Museen, über staatliche Kunstpflege und Restaurationen, neue Funde: Aus amerikanischen Galerien." Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 11 (1888), p. 74, as by Fyt.

    Emil Carlsen in The Encyclopædia Britannica. 21, 14th ed. London, 1929, pl. III.

    Edith Greindl. Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle. Brussels, 1956, p. 166, as among unsigned works ascribed to Fyt.

    Walter A. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1984, vol. 1, pp. 99–100; vol. 2, pl. 42, calls this and "A Hare and Birds" (MMA 71.44) very probably pendants, possibly intended as overdoors.

    Introduction by Walter A. Liedtke in Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 20.

    Frances Suzman Jowell. "Thoré-Bürger's Art Collection: 'A Rather Unusual Gallery of Bric-à-Brac'." Simiolus 30, no. 1/2 (2003), pp. 70–71, 93, 112, 116, fig. 36.

    Katharine Baetjer. "Buying Pictures for New York: The Founding Purchase of 1871." Metropolitan Museum Journal 39 (2004), pp. 197, 208, 245, appendix 1A no. 107, ill. p. 209 and fig. 34 (installation photograph).



  • Notes

    This painting and "A Hare and Birds" (MMA 71.44) are probably pendants.

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