
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001498Nubian Woman
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right: Aug
Provenance
Metropolitan Galleries, New York, by 1931 [this and the following according to Registrars records and Rich 1938]; sold to Charles H. Worcester and Mary F. S. Worcester, Chicago, 1931, as by Eugène Delacroix; given to the Art Institute, 1931.
Exhibition history
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, French Nineteenth Century Oil Sketches: David to Degas, March 5–April 16, 1978, cat. 1.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 151. Art Institute of Chicago, Report for the Year 1935 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 69. Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1938), p. 69, no. 63. Donald A. Rosenthal, “Jules-Robert Auguste and the Early Romantic Circle” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1978), pp. 255–56, no. I-33, fig. 130. Donald A. Rosenthal, “Development of Romantic Orientalism During the Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830),” in Donald A. Rosenthal, Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting, 1800–1880, exh. cat. (Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1982), p. 28, fig. 17.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jules-Robert Auguste (French, 1789-1850)
- Date
- c. 1830
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 34.5 × 26 cm (15 × 10 3/8 in.); Framed: 43.2 × 33.7 × 5.1 cm (17 × 13 1/4 × 2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Accession no.
- 1931.237
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