Constant Troyon
French, 1810–1865
The Gamekeeper
1850s
Troyon was widely admired as an animal painter and his images of dogs were especially popular. The artist had many opportunities to study scenes like this on summer visits to a friend’s country home. Though huntsmen trained their dogs to be vicious in the hunt, Troyon has shown them in a moment of playful repose.
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 18 1/8 x 14 3/4 in. (46 x 37.4 cm) Frame: 26 1/4 x 22 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (66.7 x 57.8 x 7 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.563 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Constant Troyon, The Gamekeeper, 1850s, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.563
Select Bibliography
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Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Kurata, Saburo. Fine Arts of the World. Tokyo: Orion, 1980.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Anonymous. "Nineteenth-Century Painting and Sculpture." The Magazine Antiques 152 (October 1997): 522–31.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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