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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    On the Nile
    Eugène Fromentin. On the Nile, 1871. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001076

    On the Nile

    by Eugène Fromentin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right: Eug. Fromentin, 71

    Provenance

    Mrs. Mary J. Morgan, New York (d. 1886); sale of her estate, American Art Galleries, New York, Mar. 5, 1886, lot 223. Mr. Samuel M. Nickerson (1830-1914) and Mrs. Matilda Nickerson (née Pinkham Crosby, 1837-1912); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 1900.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson, February 1900, cat. 29 Rhode Island School of Design, March 1935, no cat. Portland, Oregon Art Museum, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1892-1942, Dec. 2, 1942-Jan. 3, 1943, cat. 26. London, Royal Academy of Art, The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, The Allure of North Africa and the Near East, Mar. 23-May 27, 11984, cat. 25; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, July 1-Oct. 28, 1984 [Washington only]. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago's Dream, A World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago 1893-1993, Nov. 1, 1993-Jan. 9, 1994, not shown in cat. St. Petersburg, FL, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, January 10-July 7, 1996, cat. 10.

    Publications

    Handbook of the Art Institute of Chicago (1925) Rhode Island School of Design, Yearbook (1935), 167. Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1892-1942, exh. cat. (Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1942), np. cat. 26. Charles Crehore Cunningham, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: ARt Institute, 1961), 166-67. MaryAnne Stevens, ed., The Orientalists: The Allure of North Africa and the Near East, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984), 79 cat. 25. 135-36. James Thompson and Barbara Wright, La vie et l'oeuvre d'Eugène Fromentin (Paris: ACR, 1987), 266, 268 (color ill.). Hardin, Jennider, The lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, 1996), 5-6 cat. 10, 22 (ill.) Gérard-Georges Lemaire, L'univers des orientalistes (Paris: Éditions Place des Victoires, 2000), 380-31 (ill.)

    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
    Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820-1876)
    Date
    1871
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    63.8 × 110.6 cm (25 × 43 1/2 in.); Framed: 80.7 × 127 × 6.4 cm (31 3/4 × 50 × 2 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    19th century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Nickerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1900.580

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