Childe Hassam

Boston Common at Twilight



Childe Hassam - Boston Common at Twilight



Childe Hassam
Boston Common at Twilight
1885-86
106.7 x 152.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower right: [crescent] Childe Hassam/1885-6
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Mrs. Maud E. Appleton


Literature

H. Barbara Weinberg, Childe Hassam, New York; New Haven and London, 2004, fig. 39


Provenance

1885-86, the artist
1887, sold at auction at Noyes, Cobb, and Co., Boston, 9 March (possibly to someone named "Daniels" as catalogue annotation suggests)
possibly with a Mr. Andrews, Boston
by about 1893, to Samuel Appleton (1846-1926), Boston
1926, by descent to his daughter, Maud E. Appleton (born 1873), Boston
1927, lent by Maud E. Appleton to the MFA
1931, gift of Miss Maud E. Appleton to the MFA, accession date 3 December 1931

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 31.952

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Childe Hassam July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou
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Childe Hassam At the Florist
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1889

Childe Hassam Une Averse - rue Bonaparte
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