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A Mounted Officer
Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille · 1877
Provenance
Ownership history
- Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- South Bend, Indiana, University of Notre Dame, The University Art Gallery, The Great Century: France, 1800–1900, November 8–29, 1959, no cat. no.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1993, November 1, 1993–January 9, 1994, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- “Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 56, no. 18.
- “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115.
- “Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37, no. 18.
- Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 65, no. 18.
- Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 72, no. 18.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 92, no. 18.
- William M. R. French, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: I. Introduction,” Brush and Pencil 1, 4 (1898), pp. 81, 83 (ill.); reprinted, Charles Francis Browne, Brush and Pencil: A Magazine of Art, September 1897–March 1898, vol. 1 (Chicago: Phillips & Company, 1898), p. vi.
- “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 18.
- Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 159, no. 118.
- Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), pp. 712, n.p. ill..
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