Claude Antoine Cinier
Sous Bois (Undergrowth)

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Sous Bois (Undergrowth)
Datec. late 1830s–1885
MediumPen and gray ink, gray wash, and watercolor on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 8 13/16 × 12 11/16 in. (22.4 × 32.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2023.502
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist; [René-François Tessèdre Gallery, Paris]; Private collection, Austria; [Galerie Michel Descours, Paris, as of 2023]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistorySur la route d'Italie: peindre la nature d'Hubert Robert à Corot: le goût d'un collectionneur, Musée d'art, d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Evreux (April 26-Sept. 21, 2014) and Musée de Picardie, Amiens (Feb. 13-May 31, 2015).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in ink, bottom left corner: Ponthus Cinier [cursive]
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto: Signed in ink, bottom left corner: Ponthus Cinier [cursive]
None known at this time.
Catalogue raisonnéNone

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