Bassin de Neptune, Versailles
1913
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.9 × 50.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-136809
James Carroll Beckwith painted this scene of the Neptune Fountain during one of several trips he made to Versailles. There was a movement at the time to restore the grandeur of the French palace, which may have inspired Beckwith to paint scenes of the gardens there. (Franchi and Weber, Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), 1999) In this painting, Beckwith captured the spl…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution
Registry history
- 1913 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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