Women of the Ouled Nayls

1. Collection of the artist, 1867 [lent by him to Paris 1867]. Possibly Durand-Ruel, 1867 [see catalogue of Albert Spencer sale, cited below]. Marmontel; his sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 11–12, 1868, lot 36 as “Femmes des Ouled-Nayls (Sahara)” for 9,400 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Edward Matthews, New York [see Spencer sale cited below]; sold to Albert Spencer, New York, by 1888; his sale Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York, February 28, 1888, lot 65 for $6,400 [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Salon de 1867, 1867, no. 619.
• Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition: Department of Fine Arts, 1893, no. 3097.
• Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, French Painting in Africa, April 1935, no cat.

• Louis Gonse, Eugène Fromentin: peintre et écrivain (Paris: A. Quantin, 1881), pp. 29, 82.
• Walter Rowlands, “Art Sales in America,” Art News 40 (1888), p. 318.
• “Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.
• “Gives Her Pictures: Mrs. Henry Field Donates a Collection to the Art Institute,” Chicago Daily Tribune (June 4, 1893), p. 10.
• Roger Riordan, “The World’s Fair Loan Exhibition: Contemporary Painting,” The Art Amateur 30, 5 (1894), p. 130.
• “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” The Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115.
• “The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, pt. 1 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 73, no. 28.
• American Art Annual 1898 1 (1899), p. 140, no. 28.
• Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 712.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 161, no. 128.

Arabs Crossing a Ford

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The Arab Falconer

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Arab Skirmish

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Le Bouffon - Le Salon de 1868

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Infanta María Luisa (1782–1824) and Her Son Carlos Luis (1799–1883)

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Salome

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Oedipus and the Sphinx

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A Mosque

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