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signed Charles Sprague Pearce and inscribed Auvers- S.Oise, S-et-O, l.l. oil on canvas 40 3/4 by 69 in.103.5 by 175.3 cm. Painted circa 1880s. The inscription at lower left refers to the rivers Seine and Oise, France. On the advice of William Morris Hunt, Pearce went to Paris in 1873, where he studied under Leon Bonnat and exhibited at several of the Paris Salons. In 1885, he settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, where he continued to paint scenes of rural life for the next three decades. Pearce returned to America periodically, and in the 1890s, he completed a series of murals for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.. Provenance: Brand Galleries, Inc., San Francisco Richard York Gallery, New York Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1984 Exhibited: New York, National Academy of Design, 1890 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1890 Dresden, Germany, International Art Exhibition, 1897, no. 1292 New York, Richard York Gallery, Sunset to Dawn, 1983 Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, New York, The New York Historical SocietyParis 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, September 1989- December 1990, no. 237 Literature: Ernest Knaufft, "Pennsylvania Academy Exhhibition," Art Amateur, March 22, 1890, p. 75 Annette Blaugrund, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, New York, 1989, p. 200, no. 237, illustrated in color.