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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Tobias and the Angel
    Jean Charles Cazin. Tobias and the Angel, 1878. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000141

    Tobias and the Angel

    by Jean Charles Cazin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left: J. C. Cazin 1878

    Provenance

    Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

    Exhibition history

    Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum, In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the 1883 Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition, June 29–September 1, 1986, no. 11; New York, National Academy of Design, September 18–December 7, 1986. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, a World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1993, November 1, 1993–January 9, 1994, no cat. no.

    Publications

    “Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 55, no. 4 “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 36, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 63, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 70, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 90, no. 4. “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 156, no. 104. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy, vol. 2 (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 711, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 162, no. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 173, no. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 167, no. 104. Hans Vollmer, “Cazin, Jean Charles,” in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, vol. 6 (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1912), p. 246. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 112, no. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 116, no. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 116, no. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 22, no. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 22, no. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 22, no. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 130, no. 104. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 146. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 70.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901)
    Date
    1878
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    58.6 × 84.2 cm (23 × 33 1/8 in.); Framed: 75 × 100.4 × 5.1 cm (29 1/2 × 39 1/2 × 2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    19th century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Henry Field Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1894.1036

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