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On the Nile

Eugène Fromentin · 1871

Provenance

Ownership history

Mrs. Mary J. Morgan, New York (d. 1886); sale of her estate, American Art Galleries, New York, Mar. 5, 1886, lot 223. Mr. Samuel M. Nickerson (1830-1914) and Mrs. Matilda Nickerson (née Pinkham Crosby, 1837-1912); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1900.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson, February 1900, cat. 29
Rhode Island School of Design, March 1935, no cat.
Portland, Oregon Art Museum, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1892-1942, Dec. 2, 1942-Jan. 3, 1943, cat. 26.
London, Royal Academy of Art, The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, The Allure of North Africa and the Near East, Mar. 23-May 27, 11984, cat. 25; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, July 1-Oct. 28, 1984 [Washington only].
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago's Dream, A World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago 1893-1993, Nov. 1, 1993-Jan. 9, 1994, not shown in cat.
St. Petersburg, FL, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, January 10-July 7, 1996, cat. 10.

Literature

Handbook of the Art Institute of Chicago (1925)
Rhode Island School of Design, Yearbook (1935), 167.
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1892-1942, exh. cat. (Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1942), np. cat. 26.
Charles Crehore Cunningham, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: ARt Institute, 1961), 166-67.
MaryAnne Stevens, ed., The Orientalists: The Allure of North Africa and the Near East, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984), 79 cat. 25. 135-36.
James Thompson and Barbara Wright, La vie et l'oeuvre d'Eugène Fromentin (Paris: ACR, 1987), 266, 268 (color ill.).
Hardin, Jennider, The lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, 1996), 5-6 cat. 10, 22 (ill.)
Gérard-Georges Lemaire, L'univers des orientalistes (Paris: Éditions Place des Victoires, 2000), 380-31 (ill.)

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