Cathedral at le Puy
1911
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 34.9 × 25.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135156
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame at le Puy was built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and was a major pilgrimage site in the late 1500s. James Carroll Beckwith and his wife made their own “pilgrimage” to France in 1911, with stops in Avignon, Nîmes, and le Puy. (Franchi and Weber, Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), 1999) He painted this scene on the spot one July after…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution
Registry history
- 1911 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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