(Sèvres 1810–1865 Paris)

Cows by the water. 1855.

Oil on panel

Signed lower left: C. TROYON.

41 x 59.5 cm.

Provenance:
- Collection of Prince Louis Napoléon (1856 – 1879) (label verso ).
- Collection of N. de Rothschild.
- Collection of Madame de Rothschild (label verso).
- Collection of Baron Henri de Rothschild (1872 – 1947) (label verso).
- Fischer auctions, Lucerne, 22.6.1968.
- Swiss private collection.

Exhibited:
Cent chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 12.6.1883, No. 83.

Literature:
Wolff, Albert: Cent chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris 1883, No. 83, p. 106 (ill, p. 65).

Our thanks to Michel Rodrigue who has confirmed the authenticity of this painting on the basis of a photograph and has dated it to 1855.