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An Accident
(18th and 19th Centuries )
After training with Alexandre Cabanel (1823-89) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Dagnan-Bouveret turned from Classical themes to subjects drawn from everyday life. In this scene, a country doctor bandages a boy's injured hand, while his family looks on with varying expressions of concern. The artist witnessed an incident like this while traveling with a doctor friend in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France. When this painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1880, it established the artist's reputation as both a perceptive reporter of rural customs and a Realist who explored the psychological states of his subjects.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
William H. Stewart, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William Schaus, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1999-2000 | Vive la France! French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1880 | Salon, Paris, 1880. Palais de l'Elysees, Paris. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 1/14/1975 | Treatment | cleaned; coated; loss compensation; other |
| 2/1/1975 | Treatment | cleaned; loss compensation; coated |
| 2/24/1977 | Treatment | repaired |
| 2/9/1991 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 2/19/1991 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
| 1/14/1997 | Treatment | other |
| 1/1/2010 | Examination | examined for loan |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 35 11/16 x W: 51 1/2 in. (90.7 x 130.8 cm); Framed H: 52 1/2 x W: 67 x D: 6 1/2 in. (133.4 x 170.2 x 16.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1898
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.49