Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great

1. James Hunt (died 1801), London, offered for sale, Christie’s, London, February 5, 1802, lot 62, bought in [according to Maria Wilson of Christie’s, letter of January 9, 1996, to Larry Feinberg, in curatorial files]; Hunt family, London. Reverend George Augustus Frederick Hart (died 1872), M. A., Vicar of Arundel, Tower House, Arundel, Sussex; by descent to his niece Catherine (Mrs. John Lord); sold at Tower House, Arundel, Sotheby’s, May 20–21, 1873, lot 130, to G. Fry for £36 [British Museum annot. cat.]. Alderman Philip Spowart (died 1945), Berwick-upon-Tweed, from c. 1937 [according to recollection of Alan G. Burns, letter of February 9, 1988, in curatorial file]; his widow, Anne Nicholson Spowart (née Wood); given to her nephew, Alan G. Burns, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1960 [Alan G. Burns letters of April 4, 1984, and February 9, 1988, in curatorial file]; sold, Henry Spencer and Sons, Retford, Nottinghamshire, November 9, 1978, lot 212, to Crozier acting on behalf of Trafalgar Galleries and P. and D. Colnaghi, London, 1978 [A. G. E. Marriot letter of April 10, 1984, and notes in curatorial file]; transferred to Colnaghi, New York, 1982; sold to the Art Institute, 1983.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, October 17–December 14, 1986, cat. 56.

• F. P. Seguier, A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870), p. 211.
• Ralph N. James, Painters and Their Works (London: L. U. Gill, 1897), vol. 3, p. 154.
• Werner Oechslin, “Dinocrates and the Myth of the Megalomaniacal Institution of Architecture,” Daidalos 4 (1982), pp. 12–13 (ill.), pp. 22, 26 n. 7.
• “French Paintings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago,” Burlington Magazine 126, 976 (1984), p. 463, fig. 86.
• Margaret Smith in Alan Wintermute, ed., Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, exh. cat. (New York: Colnaghi, 1990), pp. 250, under cat. 52, 256 (ill.), 258, under cat. 55.
• Martin Warnke, Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature (London: Reaktion Books, 1994), pp. 90, 102 (ill.).
• Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Art Institute of Chicago/Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 146–52 (ill.).
• Graham Speake, Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise (New Haven, Conn; London: Yale University Press, 2002) pp. 14–5 (ill.).

Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great

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At the Moulin Rouge

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Pierre de Montarsis

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Old Man and Young Girl

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Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)

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Moulin de la Galette

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Ballet Dancers

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At the Concert

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