Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001435Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: J C Cazin
Provenance
Maple and Co., Paris [according to label on reverse]. Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris [according to Old World Arts label on reverse of painting, copy in curatorial file]. Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, by 1893 [lent to World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, cat. 2881]. Thurber Art Galleries, Chicago, by 1931 [according to the catalogue of the sale at Grant's Art Galleries, Chicago, cited below]; sold to Edward Valentine Price, Chicago, by 1931 [according to the sale catalogue citied below; Thurber Gallery closed in 1931]; sale of his collection, Grant's Art Galleries, Chicago, March 20, 1935, lot 47. Howard Young Galleries, New York [according to label on reverse]. Old World Arts, Ltd., New York by 1937 [according to receipt/label cited below]; sold to Mrs. E. P. Renouf (died 1982), June 5, 1937 [copy of receipt/label, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1983.
Exhibition history
Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, cat. 2881. Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Salon de 1905, cat. 274.
Publications
"Les Salons de 1905," Art et décoration 17 (May 1905), pp. 162 (ill.), 163, 166.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901)
- Date
- 1885–90
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 59.6 × 73 cm (23 1/2 × 28 3/4 in.); Framed: 83.9 × 97.8 × 8.9 cm (33 × 38 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. E. P. Renouf
- Accession no.
- 1983.1770
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