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    Women of the Ouled Nayls
    Eugène Fromentin. Women of the Ouled Nayls, 1867. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001529

    Women of the Ouled Nayls

    by Eugène Fromentin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower left: Eug Fromentin

    Provenance

    Collection of the artist, 1867 [lent by him to Paris 1867]. Possibly Durand-Ruel, 1867 [see catalogue of Albert Spencer sale, cited below]. Marmontel; his sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 11–12, 1868, lot 36 as “Femmes des Ouled-Nayls (Sahara)” for 9,400 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Edward Matthews, New York [see Spencer sale cited below]; sold to Albert Spencer, New York, by 1888; his sale Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York, February 28, 1888, lot 65 for $6,400 [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Salon de 1867, 1867, no. 619. Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition: Department of Fine Arts, 1893, no. 3097. Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, French Painting in Africa, April 1935, no cat.

    Publications

    Louis Gonse, Eugène Fromentin: peintre et écrivain (Paris: A. Quantin, 1881), pp. 29, 82. Walter Rowlands, “Art Sales in America,” Art News 40 (1888), p. 318. “Drift of the Dog Days,” The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247. “Gives Her Pictures: Mrs. Henry Field Donates a Collection to the Art Institute,” Chicago Daily Tribune (June 4, 1893), p. 10. Roger Riordan, “The World’s Fair Loan Exhibition: Contemporary Painting,” The Art Amateur 30, 5 (1894), p. 130. “The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” The Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115. “The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, pt. 1 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 73, no. 28. American Art Annual 1898 1 (1899), p. 140, no. 28. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 712. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 161, no. 128. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 167, no. 128. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 178, no. 128. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 170, no. 128. Pierre Blanchon, Eugène Fromentin: Corresondance et Fragments inédits (Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1912), p. 203 n. 2. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 114, no. 128. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 118, no. 128. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 118, no. 128. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 137, no. 128. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 153. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 166. Fouad Marcos, Fromentin et l’Afrique (Sherbrooke: Éditions Cosmos, 1973), pp. 141, 209. James Thompson, “Eugène Fromentin: Painter and Writer” (Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, 1984), vol. 1, pp. 234–35, no. 160; vol. 2 p. 81, no. 160 (ill.). Maureen C. O’Brien, In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the 1883 Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition, exh. cat. (Southampton, New York: Parrish Art Museum, 1986), pp. 51 n. 67, 152 n. 3. James Thompson and Barbara Wright, La vie et l’œuvre d’Eugène Fromentin (Courbevoie: ACR Éditions, 1987), pp. 73, 84, 218, 224–25 (ill.), 240–41, 280. Sotheby’s, New York, 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, sale cat. (Sotheby’s, May 23, 1996), lot. 72. Barbara Wright, Eugène Fromentin: A Life in Art and Letters (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 205, 254, 401, 423, 549. James Thompson and Barbara Wright, Eugène Fromentin 1820–1876: Visions d’Algérie et d’Égypte (Courbevoie: ACR Éditions, 2008), pp. 254, 258–59, 261, 273 (ill.), 282, 288, 327–28.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820–1876)
    Date
    1867
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    110.2 × 72.4 cm (43 3/8 × 28 1/2 in.); Framed: 131.5 × 93.7 cm (51 3/4 × 36 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    nineteenth century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Henry Field Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1894.1060

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