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Portrait of Eugène Lacheurié
Gustave Moreau · 1852
Provenance
Ownership history
- Given by the artist to Mme Lacheurie, Paris, 1852 [inscription]. Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Davis. Minneapolis and London, by 1959 [New York 1959]. Mrs. Jean K. Benjamin, New York, by 1976 [Mathieu 1976]. Sold by Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, to the Art Institute, 1982.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse," February 3-March 15, 1959, cat. 142.
- London, Hazlitt, Gooden, and Fox, "Nineteenth-Century French Drawings," June 10-July 10, 1981, cat. 46.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 142-143, cat. 64 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Acquisitions in the Regenstein Collection 1972-1989," February 2-May 8, 1990.
- New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 40; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)," September 28, 1998-January 4, 1999, cat. 4; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 10-April 25, 1999; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 7-September 9, 1999.
Literature
Published references
- Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, with a catalogue of the finished paintings, watercolors, and drawings (Boston, 1976), p. 296, no. 10 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (Chicago, 1981), p. 12 (ill.).
- Julius Kaplan, "The Art of Gustave Moreau: Theory, Style, and Context" (Ann Arbor, 1982), no. 35.
- Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau (Paris, 1994), p. 22 (ill.).
- "Maineri to Miro: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), pp. 74-75 (ill.).
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