Saint-Paul, in the record's own words

The record dates The Stone Bench in the Garden at Saint-Paul Hospital to 1889. Twelve titles in this catalogue name Saint-Paul and twelve name a hospital, and the two sets are not the same twelve: fifteen distinct works carry one word or the other, fourteen of them dated 1889 and one dated 1890. Five titles name an asylum instead, all five dated 1889. The record uses three terms where a reader would expect one, which is why this catalogue counts titles rather than trusting a label.

What the record gives

The canvas measures 39 by 46 centimetres, a small horizontal, and it is held by the Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo (MASP) — the only entry in this catalogue from that collection. The measured palette reads as ochre.

The garden, counted

Twenty-four titles here name a garden, and they run through every period: one dated 1885, one 1886, three 1887, nine 1888, six 1889 and four 1890. Six of them are dated to the year of this entry. This is the only title in the catalogue containing the word bench. What a single occurrence means, if anything, the record does not say; it is reported here as a count and left there.