Five Dancing Female Figures
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux · 1865
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly the artist's estate; possibly the artist's brother, Edward Carpeaux, Elko, Nev. [a letter from Paul Ogden in the curatorial file]. Private Collection, San Rafael, Calif., to around 1939 [letter mentioned above]. Isabelle Percy West, Calif., c. 1939-c. 1959 [letter mentioned above]. Paul Ogden, Lafayette, Calif., c. 1959 [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1974.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York University, The Drawing Center, "Sculptors' Drawings over Six Centuries," March 18-June 20, 1981; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 23-September 20, 1981.
- Williamstown, Mass., The Sterling and Francine Art Institute, "A Romance With Realism: The Art of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux," May 7-August 27, 1989, cat. 22.
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