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Two Washerwomen Crossing a Small Park in Paris
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: JF Raffaelli
Provenance
Presumably Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago; his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918) [lent by her to Chicago 1910]; by descent to her great-grandson Gordon Palmer (died 1964); his widow Janis H. Palmer (died 1984); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1985.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1910, cat. 50. Cleveland Museum of Art, Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism, Oct. 8, 2023-Jan. 14, 2024, cat. 25.
Publications
“Acquisitions,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1985–86 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), p. 71, fig. 41. Britany Salsbury, Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023), 121, 132 (ill.), 204 cat. 25.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean François Raffaëlli (French, 1850–1924)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 59.2 × 81 cm (23 5/16 × 31 7/8 in.); (Framed): 81.6 × 103.2 × 8.9 cm (32 1/8 × 40 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Janis H. Palmer
- Accession no.
- 1985.262
More by Jean François Raffaëlli in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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