Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, 1888, 1888

  • Childe Hassam, American, 1859-1935

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 17 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches (44.5 × 54.6 cm)
  • 29 3/4 × 34 × 3 1/2 inches (75.6 × 86.4 × 8.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

79.143

On View

  • American, Level 2, West

Department

American Art before 1950

Signed and dated, lower left: Childe Hassam, 1888

Inscribed, on reverse: oval canvas stamp on original unlined canvas which reads: COULERS...?...TOILES A PEINDRE | TABLEAUX | REY + ---?--- | PARIS 61, RUE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Inscribed, on torn paper glued to the back of stretcher: WIL..?...FINE ARTS..?...DETROIT, MICH.

1888-1890s, Childe Hassam

1890s-1979, The Detroit Club

1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Shaw, Nancy Rivard. "Curatorial Reports--American Art." Bulletin of the DIA 58, 4 (1980): pp. 184-185 (fig. 10). Childe Hassam, American Impressionist. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2004.

Childe Hassam, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, 1888, 1888, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 79.143.