As provided by the Kress Foundation: https://www.kressfoundation.org/kress-collection/repository/fine-arts-museums-of-san-francisco:

Edward Adolphus Seymour [1804-1885], 12th Duke Somerset;

By inheritance to his brother Archibald Henry Algernon Seymour, (1810-1891), 13th Duke Somerset;

Sale, Christie's London, 28 June 1890, no. 50;

[Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, stock no. 5708 as “Tivoli”];

Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), Newton Manor, Dorset, possibly buying for Sir Francis Cook, for whom he often acted as agent [1];

Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), 1st Baronet., Doughty House, Surrey;

By inheritance to Sir Frederick Lucas Cook (1844-1920), 2nd Baronet.. Doughty House;

By inheritance to Sir Herbert Frederick Cook (1868-1939), 3rd Baronet, Doughty House;

Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. (1907-1978), Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset;

Sold 1946 [2];

[Pinakos Inc. and M Knoedler & Co., New York, no. A 3694] in 1947 [3];

Sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on 6 February 1952;

Gift to Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 1961

[1] According to a letter from G. W. Plomer (Agnew's) from 3 March 1981 in FAMSF, European Paintings curatorial file.
[2] See concordance of Cook Collection Paintings, assembled on the occasion of the publication of Elon Danziger,"The Cook Collection, its founder and inheritors," Burlington Magazine CXLVI, no. 1216, July 2004, no. 443.
[3] M. Knoedler and Co. Records, Series II, Box 76 (Sales Book No. 16, Paintings, 1945-1953), Getty Research Institute.


Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the de Young Museum, 1961 [3]


[1] As Claude, ”A View of Tivoli, with the Temple of the Sybil and the Palace of the Caesars in the background; two herdsmen with a female peasant and dogs, driving cattle through a ford. 37 ½ ✕ 51 ½ in.”
[2] Acquired for Sir James C. Robinson, according to W. G. Plomer, letter, 3 March 1981
[3] The painting was cleaned and restored by William Suhr (New York, ca. 1948): relined and revarnished 1954 and retouched in 1959 by Mario Modestini (New York) and treated in the conservation laboratory of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1973-1977)

1902, London. The Royal Academy of Arts. ”Works by Old Masters,” winter, no. 57.

1948, Baltimore Museum of Art. ”Themes and Variations in Painting and Sculpture,” 15 April - 23 May, pp. 42, 67, fig. 101.

1951, Pomona. Los Angeles County Fair. ”One World of Art,” 4 - 30 September, no. 62.

1951, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. ”Four Centuries of European Painting,” 6 - 31 October, no. 49, repr.

1951, Pittsburgh. Carnegie Institute. ”French Painting (1100-1900):” 18 October - 2 December, no. 62, repr.

1955, San Francisco. M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. ”The Samuel H. Kress Collection,” pp. 24-25, repr.

1961-1962, Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. ”Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection,” 10 December 1961 - 4 February 1962, no. 18.

1978-1979, Denver-New York-Minneapolis. ”Masterpieces of French Art: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.” Denver Art Museum, 26 December 1978 - 18 February 1979; New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., 14 March - 27 April 1979; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 24 May - 1 July 1979, no. 19.

2006-2007, San Francisco-Williamstown-Washington D.C. ”Drawings by Claude Lorrain from the British Museum.” San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 14 October 2006 - 14 January 2007; Williamstown, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, 4 February 2007 - 29 April 2007; Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 20 May 2007 - 13 August 2007.

Herbert Cook. ”La Collection de Sir Frederick Cook.” Les Arts, no. 44 (August 1905): p. 20.

Herbert Cook. A Catalogue of the Paintings at the Doughty House, Richmond and Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook. Ed. Herbert Cook. 3 vols. London: privately printed, 1915, p. 3, no. 443, repr. opposite 61.

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John Walker. ”The Kress Collection and the Museum.” Arts Digest 29, no. 11 (1 March 1955): p. 18.

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Architect and Engineer (5 July 1958): p. 5, repr.

Marcel Roethlisberger. Claude Lorrain: The Paintings. 2 vols. 1961. Reprint. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1981, 1:231-232, fig. 154.

European Works of Art in the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco: Diablo Press, 1966, p. 113, repr.

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Marcel Roethlisberger with Doretta Cecchi. L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain. Milan: Rizzoli, 1975; Tout l’œuvre peint de Claude Lorrain. Paris: Flammarion, 1977, no. 144, repr.

Colin Eisler. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. New York: Phaidon Press, 1977, pp. 284-285, no. K1894, fig. 254.

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Thomas P. Lee. ”Recently Acquired French Paintings: Reflections on the Past.” Apollo 111, no. 217 (March 1980): pp. 214, 218, fig. 5.

Christopher Wright. Italian, French, and Spanish Paintings of the 17th Century. London: Frederick Warne Ltd., 1981, p. 13.

Pierre Rosenberg. France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982, p. 361, no. 10, repr.

Pierre Rosenberg. ”France in the Golden Age: A Postscript.” Metropolitan Museum Journal, no. 17 (1984): p. 42.

Edward P. Caraco. Peintures franc̜aises du Museum of Art de la Nouvelle Orléans: Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orleans, 9 mai - 15 septembre 1984. Orléans: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1984, p. 20.

Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings 1500-1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987, pp. 56-59, repr.