Chariot Race

1. Alexander Turney Stewart (died 1876), New York; his widow, Cornelia M. Stewart, New York (died 1886); sold American Art Association, New York, March 23, 1887, lot 60, to Henry Hilton for $7,100 [buyer according to New York Evangelist 1887; price according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]; Henry Hilton (died 1899), New York. E. H. van Ingen (died 1920), New York; his estate; sold Anderson Galleries, New York, January 24, 1928, lot 145, to Clapp & Graham Co., New York, for $2,100 [buyer according to a letter from Clapp & Graham Co. to George F. Harding Jr. dated March 8, 1928, copy in curatorial file; price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in Ryerson Library, Art Institute]; Clapp & Graham Co.; sold to George F. Harding Jr. (died 1939), Chicago, November 9, 1928 [according to the receipt of sale, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to The George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; transferred to the Art Institute, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1814–1904), November 10–December 30, 1972, no. 27; traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts, January 26–March 11, 1973; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, April 6–May 20, 1973.

• Jean-Léon Gérôme, Les Œuvres de J. –L. Gérôme, vol. 21 (Paris, Goupil, [n.d.]), no. 10.
• “The Art Gallery: A List of the Pictures in Mr. Stewart’s Collection,” New York Times (April 12, 1876), p. 8.
• Charles F. Briggs, “Alexander Turney Stewart,” The Independent (April 20, 1876), p. 1.
• “Alexander Turney Stewart,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly 1, 6 (1876), no pag.
• Frédéric Vors, “Jean Léon Gérôme,” The Art Amateur 1, 4 (1879), p. 71.
• “Private Galleries: Collection of the Estate of Alexander Turney Stewart,” The Art Amateur 1, 6 (1879), p. 117.
• Jean-Léon Gérôme and Edward Strahan, ed., Gérôme: A Collection of the Works of J.L. Gérôme in One Hundred Photogravures, vol. 2, section 8 (New York: S.L. Hall, 1881), no pag. (ill.).
• “Gérôme as a Draughtsman,” The Art Amateur 6, 3 (1882), p. 52.
• Ernest Knaufft, “Art Chat: The Stewart Collection II,” The Theatre 2, 25 (1887), p. 426.
• “Art Notes,” The Critic: A Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts (April 2, 1887), p. 170.
• “Art Notes and News: The A. T. Stewart Collection,” The Art Interchange (March 12, 1887), p. 81.
• “The A. T. Stewart Collection,” The Art Amateur 16, 3 (1887), p. 56.

Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid

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Portrait of a Woman

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Eagle Expiring, Monument for Waterloo

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Napoleon Entering Cairo

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The Egyptian Smoker

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Relay of Dogs in the Desert

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Interrogation II

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Man Lighting Girl's Cigarette (Jean Patchett), New York

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