First Snow at Veneux-Nadon

Provenance

From the artist 28 January 1881 to (Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris); sold 19 July 1892 to Henri Vever [1854-1942]; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-2 February 1897, no. 105); purchased by (Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris); sold 4 February 1897 to François Depeaux [1853-1920], Rouen. Adolphe A. Tavernier, Paris; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6 March 1900, no. 71); purchased by Mancini, Paris. Charles L. de Hèle, Brussels; (Hèle sale, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, 13 June 1911, no. 12).[1] Louis Koch [1862-1930], Frankfurt.[2] Robert von Hirsch [1883-1977, second husband of Koch's daughter, Martha Koch Dreyfus], Basel, in 1957 until at least 1959.[3] Koch's grand-daughter and Von Hirsch's step-daughter, Lili-Charlotte Sarnoff [1916-2014], Bethesda, Maryland; gift (partial and promised) 1983 to NGA; gift completed 2015. [1] Provenance according to François Daulte, _Alfred Sisley: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint_, Paris, 1959: no. 279. [2] Sarnoff collection records, in NGA curatorial files. Koch's name is not included in Daulte's catalogue raisonné. [3] Von Hirsch lent the painting to a 1957 exhibition in Basel; Daulte 1959, no. 279.

First Snow at Veneux-Nadon

Sisley, Alfred

1878

Accession Number

1983.98.1

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 49.2 x 65.2 cm (19 3/8 x 25 11/16 in.) | framed: 69.2 x 86.4 x 7.6 cm (27 1/4 x 34 x 3 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Donated by Lolo Sarnoff in memory of her grandfather, Louis Koch