Nubian Woman by Jules Robert Auguste
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Nubian Woman

Jules Robert Auguste · c. 1830

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Metropolitan Galleries, New York, by 1931 [this and the following according to Registrars records and Rich 1938]; sold to Charles H. Worcester and Mary F. S. Worcester, Chicago, 1931, as by Eugène Delacroix; given to the Art Institute, 1931.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, French Nineteenth Century Oil Sketches: David to Degas, March 5–April 16, 1978, cat. 1.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 151.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Report for the Year 1935 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 69.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1938), p. 69, no. 63.
  • Donald A. Rosenthal, “Jules-Robert Auguste and the Early Romantic Circle” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1978), pp. 255–56, no. I-33, fig. 130.
  • Donald A. Rosenthal, “Development of Romantic Orientalism During the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830),” in Donald A. Rosenthal, Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting, 1800–1880, exh. cat. (Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1982), p. 28, fig. 17.

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