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| Eugène Boudin Berck : Cloudy Landscape 1882 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
One dozen French paintings of the 19th century. These have by various twisting paths made their way to one unlikely location and they all can now be seen together at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Among them are a fine wide sky by Boudin (above) and a poignant military portrait made during the Siege of Paris in 1870 (below). Carolus-Duran – the painter of the soulful soldier – is better remembered today as the teacher of John Singer Sargent than for any paintings of his own. This is unfair to Carolus-Duran, but reputations are unforgiving.
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| Charles Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran Portrait of E. Berthon 1870 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Le Petit Chaville near Ville d'Avray 1823 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Montfermeuil : the Brook in the Wood 1867 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Honoré Daumier Landscape with Figure ca. 1860 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| French painter Still Life ca. 1800 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| François Marius Granet View of a Garden through a Roman Vault ca. 1820 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Édouard Manet Garden Urn 19th century Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Édouard Manet Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus 19th century Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Camille Pissarro Bouquet of Pink Peonies 1873 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Pierre Auguste Renoir Garden in Montmartre 1890s Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec La Toilette 1891 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
The two French drawings below entered the Ashmolean Museum only recently. Both were acquired in honor of art historian Francis Haskell (1928-2000). The Delacroix was a gift in his honor by the American Friends of the British Museum. The wash drawing by Fontaine was sponsored by Professor Haskell himself. Both sheets reflect his scholarly preoccupation – to examine how the art of past historical periods was received and interpreted by people of taste in later historical periods.
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| Eugène Delacroix Sheet of studies, including two heads after Greek coins 19th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Presented by the American Friends of the British Museum in honor of Professor Francis Haskell, 2001 |
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| Pierre-François Leonard Fontain Roman ossuary 19th century wash drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Purchased with funds donated by Professor Francis Haskell, 1996 |