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Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin · 1875–79
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Durand-Ruel, Paris by 1922 [see Clement-Janin, 1922]. Julius H. Weitzner, New York by 1935; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gérôme to Gauguin, 1954, cat. 91, pp. 35, 50 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Clement-Janin, La Curieuse Vie de Marcellin Desboutin (Paris, 1922), p. 265.
- Art News 53 (October 1954), ill.
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