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Afternoon Tea
Inscriptions
Signed lower right, in black oil paint: J F RAFFAËLLI
Provenance
Anonymous sale, American Art Association, New York, 1887. American Art Association, New York, Apr. 10, 1900, lot 8. Samuel Putnam Avery, New York. Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 12, 1979, lot 323, as Old Sailor at Home. Christie’s, New York, Feb. 23, 1989, lot 62. Sold, Christie’s, London, Mar. 19, 1991, lot 34, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Massachusetts; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 120, cat. 83 (ill.).
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, ed., Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), 120, cat. 83 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean François Raffaëlli (French, 1850–1924)
- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 34.9 × 28.6 cm (13 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.); Framed: 42.6 × 38.1 × 6.4 cm (16 3/4 × 15 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1051
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