
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000155On the Road
by Jules Dupré
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: Jules Dupré 1856
Provenance
Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow, Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.
Exhibition history
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Barbizon Revisited, September 27–November 4, 1962, cat. 49; traveled to Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, November 20–December 27, 1962; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, January 15–February 24, 1963; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, March 14–April 28, 1963.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1893), p. 56, no. 25. “Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247. “Art Institute of Chicago: II – Modern Paintings: The Henry Field Collection,” Art Amateur 21, 1 (1894), p. 19. “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 66, no. 25. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 93, no. 25. Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: IV – The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” Brush and Pencil 2, 1 (1898), p. 7. “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 140, no. 25. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 161, no. 125. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy, vol. 2 (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 712, no. 25. N. Hudson Moore, “The Barbizon School II,” The Chautauquan 36 (1903), pp. 499 (ill.), 505. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 166, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 178, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 170, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 114, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 118, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 118, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 24, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), p. 24, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 24, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 135, no. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 152. Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), p. 35. Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1948), p. 32. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 133. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 191, fig. 4. Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger, French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 2 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966), p. 77, under no. 87.15.91. Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, Jules Dupré (1811–1889): catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, dessiné et gravé (Paris: Léonce Laget Éditeur, 1974), pp. 123, 131, no. 256 (ill.). Marie-Madeleine Aubrun, Jules Dupré, 1811–1889, exh. cat. (Galerie du Fleuve, Paris, 1973), p. 8. Michael Milkovich, Jules Dupré (1811–1889): A Loan Exhibition (Memphis: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1979), p. 18. Stefan Germer, “Pictures at an Exhibition,” Chicago History: The Magazine of the Chicago Historical Society 16, 1 (Spring 1987), p. 17 (ill.), 21.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jules Dupré (French, 1811–1889)
- Date
- 1856
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39.4 × 50.8 cm (15 1/2 × 20 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 79.4 cm (27 1/4 × 31 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Henry Field Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1894.1057
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