Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of the Americas: July 2008–June 2009
In the Valley of the Seine
about 1889
John Leslie Breck
Overall: 70.8 x 130.2 cm (27 7/8 x 51 1/4 in.)
Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Accession number: 2009.338
Location: Croll Gallery (Impressionism in Boston)
Provenance/Ownership History: About 1889, the artist; 1899, by inheritance to the artist's mother, Ellen Frances Newell Breck Rice; by 1900, by descent to the artist's only brother, Edward Breck, Esq., New York [1]; 1925, by descent to his oldest daughter, Ellen ("Nelly") Breck (Mrs. Forrest) Macnee; by descent to her husband, Forrest Macnee; 1962, by inheritance to his daughter, Ellen Frances Macnee (Mrs. Timothy) Coggeshall; 1980, by descent to her daughter, Caroline Coggeshall (the artist's great great niece); 2009, sold by Caroline Coggeshall to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 25, 2009) [1] Edward Breck listed as owner in 1900 Memorial Exhibition.
Museum purchase with funds donated by exchange from the John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman, Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund, Bequest of Maxim Karolik, Bequest of Alice Dodge Wolfson Herling, Gift of Alfred I. du Pont, and the Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund