Scene at Giverny, 1890

  • Theodore Robinson, American, 1852-1896

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 16 × 25 3/4 inches (40.6 × 65.4 cm)
  • 29 7/16 × 39 3/8 × 2 3/8 inches (74.8 × 100 × 6 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Christian H. Hecker

70.680

On View

  • American, Level 2, West

Department

American Art before 1950

Signed and dated, lower left: Th. Robinson | 1890

On verso, oval stamp: Theodore Robinson | Sale | March 24, 1898

Theodore Robinson

1898, Robinson estate sale, American Art Association, no. 41 (New York, New York, USA) [as NORMANDY FARM]

1898, J.E. Cowdin

Mrs. Gertrude Cowdin

May 9, 1916, Cowdin et al Sale, American Art Association, no. 50 (New York, New York, USA) [sold as FARM HOUSE AND RICK]

1916, Colonel Frank J. Hecker

his son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Christian Hecker

1970-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Oil Paintings and Studies by the Late Theodore Robinson to be Sold at Absolute Public Sale by Order of Administrator. Auction cat., The American Art Galleries. New York, March 24, 1898, no. 41. [as Normandy Farm] Thaw, Cowdin, et al. Sale (Estate of Gertrude Cowdin). Auction cat., The American Art Association. New York, May 9, 1916, no. 50. [as Farm House and Rick] Baur, John I.H. Theodore Robinson 1852-1896. Brooklyn, 1946, no. 63. [as Farm House and Rick] Domit, Moussa M. American Impressionism. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1973, pp. 32, 114, no. 49 (ill.). Boyle, Richard J. American Impressionism. Boston, 1974, pp. 126-127 (ill.). Pyne, Kathleen. “American Paintings Acquired During the Last Decade: Theodore Robinson’s Scene at Giverny.” Bulletin of the DIA 55, 2 (1977): pp. 105-106 (ill.). Rivard, Nancy J. “American Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts.” Antiques 114 (November 1978): p. 1052 (col. pl. 11). Boyle, Richard J. John Twachtman. New York, 1979, pp. 17-18 (ill.). American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2002, pp. 94, 96, no. 69.

Theodore Robinson, Scene at Giverny, 1890, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Christian H. Hecker, 70.680.