La Peri (Mythological Subject) by Gustave Moreau
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La Peri (Mythological Subject)

Gustave Moreau · 1865

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist to A. Caubert, July 20, 1866 [Paris 1998]. Robert Rolland [Paris 1998]. Sold by Hector Brame, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Salon of 1866, cat. 2431
  • Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 52 (ill.).
  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 107-109, cat. 51 (ill.).
  • Kunsthaus Zurich, "Gustave Moreau Symbolist," March 14-May 25, 1986, cat. 25.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Imaging the Body: from Fragment to Total Display," January 30-April 28, 1992.
  • Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, "Gustave Moreau", March 20-May 14, 1995; traveled to Kyoto, the Museum of Modern Art, May 22-July 9, 1995, cat. 80.
  • Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Gustave Moreau (18267-1898), September 28, 1998-January 4, 1999; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 10-April 25, 1999; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 7-September 9, 1999, cat. 34.

Literature

Published references

  • Ernest Chesneau, Les Nations Rivales dans l'Art (1868), pp. 205-206.
  • Renan (May 1886), p. 393 (ill.).
  • Ary Renan, "Gustave Moreau" Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1900), p. 32 (ill.).
  • Leon Deshairs and Jean Laran, Gustave Moreau (Paris, 1913), p. 37.
  • Ragnar Von Holten, Gustave Moreau, Symbolist (Stockholm, 1965), p. 103.
  • Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, with a Catalogue of the Finished Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (New York, 1976), no. 80 (ill.).
  • Jean Selz, Gustave Moreau (New York, 1979), p. 28 (ill.).
  • Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5F11.
  • Susan M. Canning, Patrick Florizoone, Nancy Ireson, Kimberly Nichols, Debora Silverman, Anna Swimbourne, and Sabine Taevernier, with a forward by Herwig Todts, "James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony" (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014). https://publications.artic.edu/ensor/reader/temptationstanthony; Accessed August 2015, Section 258, fig. 6 (ill.).

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