2000, Gift to the Indiana University Art Museum from Stuart and Sophie Sperry
1997–2000, Collection of Stuart (d. 1998) and Sophie Sperry, London (purchased from Stoppenbach & Delestre, Ltd.)
1997, with Stoppenbach & Delestre, Ltd., London [1]
?–1997, Private Collection, Sweden [2]
1910–?, with Gooden & Fox, London [3]
July 4, 1910, Sale, “Very Important Collection of Modern Pictures and Water-Colour Drawings Chiefly of. The Barbizon and Dutch Schools . . . The Celebrated Collection of Alexander Young, Esq.,” Christie’s, London (lot. no. 295, as “The Windmills”) (purchase by Gooden & Fox)
ca. 1906, Agnew and Wallis, London (purchase from Alexander Young) [4]
after 1891–1906, Collection of Alexander Young (1828–1907), London [5]
June 2, 1891, Sale, “Tableaux Modernes & Anciens. Composant l’intéressante Collection de M. Philippe George d’Ay,” Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (lot no. 15)
after 1875–1891, Collection of Philippe George (1832–1891), Ay, France [6]
March 23, 1875, Sale, “Tableaux Modernes. Composant les Collections de M. S… de Vienne et de M. L. R.,” Hôtel Drouot, Paris (lot no. 18) (purchased by Philippe George?) [7]
Notes:
[1] Letter, dated September 2, 1997 from Stoppenbach & Delestre Ltd (Eskenazi Museum curatorial files).
[2] Letter, dated September 2, 1997 from Stoppenbach & Delestre Ltd (Eskenazi Museum curatorial files).
[3] Letter, dated September 2, 1997 from Stoppenbach & Delestre Ltd (Eskenazi Museum curatorial files).
[4] Young’s collection was purchased en bloc by Agnew and Wallis in 1906 and divided among several dealers, including Christie’s, who then sold their portion in the 1910 auction. (Sale addressed in a letter from Charles S. Carstairs to Henry Clay Frick, dated August 12, 1906; Art Collecting Files of Henry Clay Frick, Frick Digital Collections; Francis Fowle, “Prejudice and Parsimony: Early Acquisitions of Modern French Paintings at the National Gallery of Scotland,” Visual Culture in Britain 6 no. 2, December 2005: 10).
[5] Letter, dated September 2, 1997 from Stoppenbach & Delestre Ltd (Eskenazi Museum curatorial files).
[6] Letter, dated September 2, 1997 from Stoppenbach & Delestre Ltd (Eskenazi Museum curatorial files).
[7] The two collectors whose works were auctioned remain unidentified.
Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.
