Chimera

1. Private collection, France, possibly by descent. Roberto Polo, Paris, by the 1990s; private collection, Europe, after 2011; consigned to Oscar Graf, Paris, 2023; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon de 1869, cat. 2636.
• Paris, Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l’industrie, 1876.

• G. Boileau, "Industrie et Beaux-Arts. Exposition de l’Union centrale," La Presse, October 31, 1876.
• Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: With a Catalogue of the Finished Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 376 no. 457.
• Geneviève Lacambre, et al. Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999), 56n1, 284.
• Pascal Massé, "Gustave Moreau, Botticelli et la peinture des maîtres dans les arts du feu sur métaux à la fin du XIXe siècle," Revue de la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique 10 (2001): 67.
• Anna Tahinci and Stephan Wolohojian, eds. A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University (New Haven and New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2003), 236, 237n9.
• Pierre-Louis Mathieu and Françoise Siess. Gustave Moreau: Supplément au Nouveau Catalogue de l’œuvre achevé (Paris: ACR Édition, 2006), 18 no. 503.
• Werner Adriaenssens, Roberto Polo: The Eye (London: Frances Lincoln, 2011), 176 (ill.), 177 no. 176.

Self-Portrait

Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape at Chailly

Art Institute of Chicago

Mother and Child, Yucatan

Art Institute of Chicago

Tortilla Maker

Art Institute of Chicago

Rest and Work, from Mexican Mother

Art Institute of Chicago

First Steps, from Mexican Mother

Art Institute of Chicago

Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid

Art Institute of Chicago

Mexican Kitchen, from Mexican Mother

Art Institute of Chicago

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