Jean Béraud
French, 1849–1935
Windy Day, Place de la Concorde
c. 1890
A fashionably dressed woman carries a purple hatbox across a Paris square, the pavement wet with rain. She clutches her hat to avoid the fate of the man behind her, whose hat has been blown from his head by a gust of wind. Béraud designed a horse-drawn studio to shield him from the elements so he could capture such detailed, playful scenes of contemporary Parisian life.
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 22 1/16 x 14 13/16 in. (56 x 37.6 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.642 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Jean Béraud, Windy Day, Place de la Concorde, c. 1890, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.642
Select Bibliography
Cunningham, Charles C., et al. The Elegant Academics: Chroniclers of 19th-Century Parisian Life. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.
Feeney, Maura. A La Mode: Women's Fashions in French Art, 1850-1900. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982.
Daimaru Museum of Art. Paris à la Belle Epoque. Exhibitionc catalogue. Tokyo: Art Life, 1992.
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.
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.
Offenstadt, Patrick. Jean Béraud 1859-1935; The Belle Epoque: A Dream of Times Gone By. Catalogue raisonné. Paris: Taschen France, 1999.
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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Provenance
[Knoedler, Paris]; M. Tannenbaum, New York (in 1901); [William O’Leary, Detroit, in 1904]; [Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, New York, sold to Clark, 17 Nov. 1945]; Robert Sterling Clark (1945–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
