Image scanned from slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Young Girl with her Dog

Artist Narcisse Virgile Díaz de la Peña (French, 1807 - 1876)

CultureFrench

Dateca. 1850

MediumOil on paper, transferred to canvas

Dimensions80 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. (204.5 x 120 cm)
Overall, Frame: 90 1/2 x 56 in. (229.9 x 142.2 cm)

InscribedSigned lower left: "N. Diaz"

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.640

Collections

European Art before 1945

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 214

DescriptionThis is an oil on paper painting, mounted on canvas. A young girl, dressed in shimmering satin and with pearls woven in her hair, stands leaning against a flower stand. A cocker spaniel jumps toward her hand. Flowers and foliage surround her.

Label TextNarcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña French, 1807–1876 Young Girl with Her Dog, ca. 1850 Oil on paper, transferred to canvas Look at the young girl’s eyes. They are all but lost in shadow, suggesting that she is deep in reverie. Indeed, this entire picture is a kind of dreamscape—its leafy, sun-dappled garden set with broadly brushed pink and white blooms. The ethereal theme is a perfect subject for a picture like this one, which was designed solely to display its own beauty. Such poetic images fulfilled the Romantic desire for art that offered refuge from the harshness of the world. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.640 ProvenanceGalerie Durand-Ruel, Paris; Comte de Comondo; James S. Inglis, New York; Inglis sale, American Art Association, New York, March 11-13, 1909; Tedesco Frères, Paris; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, 1971. Exhibition History"French Paintings 1789-1929 from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Dayton Art Institute, March 25 - May 22, 1960. (Exh. cat. no. 29). "The Controversial Century, 1850-1950, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Provincetown, MA, June 16 - Sept. 3, 1962; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Sept. 28 - Nov. 4, 1962. (Exh. cat. not paged). "Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," for the benefit of The Chrysler Museum Art Reference Library, Wildenstein & Co., New York, N. Y., April 13 - May 13, 1978. (Exh. cat. no. 16). "Monticelli. His Contemporaries, His Influence," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittburgh, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, Oct. 27, 1978 - Sept. 2, 1979. (Exh. cat. no. 84, pp. 39-40). Published ReferencesPriscilla C. Colt and Charles H. Elam, _French Paintings 1789-1929 from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr._, exh. cat, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Oh., 1960. (Exh. cat. no. 29) Charles F. Comfort and William S.A. Dale, _The Controversial Century: 1850-1950_, exh. cat., Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Provincetown, Mass., 1962. Eric M. Zafran and Mario Amaya, _Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1978. (Exh. cat. no. 16) Jefferson C. Harrison, _French Paintings from The Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1986, 50-51, 119, no. 25. Jefferson C. Harrison, _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_ (Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1991), 99, plate 77.