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    The Babbling Brook, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Durand, Asher B., 1796-1886, painter.
    Title: 
    The Babbling Brook, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1851.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    32 x 43 1/4 in. (81.3 x 109.9 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower right:) A B Durand / 1851 signed
    Description: 
    View looking across a brook lined with trees along a pasture where cattle graze.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- River
    Animal -- Cattle
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 47.1234
    Provenance: 
    Gift of Karolik, Martha C.,
    References: 
    Museum of Fine Arts Boston, "M and M Karolik Collection of American paintings, 1815 to 1865," Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.
    "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1969.
    Lawall, David B., "Asher B. Durand: a documentary catalogue of the narrative and landscape paintings," New York: Garland Pub., 1978, no. 164.
    Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 84.
    Illustration: 
    Karolik Catalog, 1949, No.105.
    Lawall, David B., "Asher B. Durand: a documentary catalogue of the narrative and landscape paintings," New York: Garland Pub., 1978, fig. 84.
    Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 84.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 20490351
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