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African Chief
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: Fortuny '70/ A MI AMIGO J GOYENA
Provenance
Edmund C. Converse (died 1921) Greenwich, Connecticut; his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, November 25, 1927, lot 30 to George F. Harding, Jr. for $1,000 [buyer according to a Harding Museum record, copy in curatorial file; price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida]; George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; transferred to the Art Institute, 1983.
Exhibition history
Albuquerque, Albuquerque Museum, Fortuny to Picasso: Prelude to Spanish Modernism, August 21–November 27, 2005, cat. 4; Dallas, Meadows Museum, December 11, 2005–February 26, 2006. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Fortuny (1838-1874), Nov. 21, 2017-March 18, 2018, cat. 64 (ill.).
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1983–84 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 45. Mark-Allan Roglán Kelley, “La pintura española del siglo XIX en las colecciones públicas norteamericanas: Una primera aproximación,” vol. 2 (Ph.D. diss., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2001), no. 89. Javier Barón, Fortuny (1838-1874), exh. cat. (Museo Nacional del Prado, 2017), p. 35, 228-230, 233, 299, 311, 467.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (Spanish, 1838-1874)
- Date
- 1870
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 41 × 32.9 cm (16 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.); Framed: 68.6 × 61 × 8.9 cm (27 × 24 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- Spain
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
- Accession no.
- 1983.382
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