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Calf's Head and Ox Tongue
Gustave Caillebotte · c. 1882
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist (died 1894); by descent to the artist’s family, 1894 [per Berhaut 1994, p. 165, cat. 244 (ill.)]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, though Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris, 1999.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition rétrospective d’oeuvres de G. Caillebotte, June 4–16, 1894, cat. 94.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894, Sept. 16, 1994–Jan. 9, 1995, cat. 110 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, Feb. 18–May 28, 1995, cat. 96 (ill.); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 22–Sept. 10, 1995.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 36 (ill.).
- Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Gustave Caillebotte: Ein Impressionist und die Fotografie, Oct. 18, 2012–Jan. 20, 2013, cat. 128 (ill.); Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Gustave Caillebotte: Een impressionist en de fotografie, Feb. 2–May 20, 2013.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye, June 28–Oct. 4, 2015, cat. 34 (ill.); Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, Nov. 8, 2015–Feb. 14, 2016.
Literature
Published references
- Durand-Ruel, Paris, Exposition rétrospective d’oeuvres de G. Caillebotte, exh. cat. (E. Moreau, 1894), p. 7, cat. 94.
- Marie Berhaut, Caillebotte, with an introduction by Daniel Wildenstein (Wildenstein, 1951), cat. 162.
- Marie Berhaut, Caillebotte: Sa vie et son oeuvre; Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels (Bibliothèque des Arts/Wildenstein Foundation, 1978), pp. 56; 156, cat. 222 (ill.).
- Marie Berhaut, Gustave Caillebotte: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels, with assistance by Sophie Pietri, new and expanded ed. (Wildenstein Institute, 1994), pp. 43; 165, cat. 244 (ill.).
- Éric Darragon, Caillebotte, Tout l’art (Flammarion, 1994), p. 102 (ill.).
- Douglas W. Druick, “Natures mortes,” in Anne Distel, Douglas Druick, Gloria Groom, and Rodolphe Rapetti, Gustave Caillebotte, 1848–1894, trans. Jeanne Bouniort, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994), pp. 330–31, cat. 110 (ill.).
- Douglas W. Druick, “Still Lifes,” in Anne Distel, Douglas Druick, Gloria Groom, and Rodolphe Rapetti, with Julia Sagraves and an essay by Kirk Varnedoe, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, exh. cat. (Musée d’Orsay/Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 250–51, cat. 96 (ill.).
- Michael Fried, “Caillebotte’s Impressionism,” Representations 66 (Spring 1999), pp. 34; 35, fig. 23.
- Patrick Shaw Cable, “Questions of Work, Class, Gender, and Style in the Art and Life of Gustave Caillebotte” (Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 2000), pp. viii; 87; 290, fig. 47.
- “New in the Galleries: New Acquisition,” News and Events: The Art Institute of Chicago Member’s Magazine (Nov./Dec. 2000), p. 5 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, “European Painting,” Annual Report, 1999–2000 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), p. 10.
- “A Selection of 2000 Museum Acquisitions,” Apollo 152, 466 (Dec. 2000), p. 46 (ill.).
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