Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002808Five Dancing Female Figures
Provenance
Possibly the artist's estate; possibly the artist's brother, Edward Carpeaux, Elko, Nev. [a letter from Paul Ogden in the curatorial file]. Private Collection, San Rafael, Calif., to around 1939 [letter mentioned above]. Isabelle Percy West, Calif., c. 1939-c. 1959 [letter mentioned above]. Paul Ogden, Lafayette, Calif., c. 1959 [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1974.
Exhibition history
New York University, The Drawing Center, "Sculptors' Drawings over Six Centuries," March 18-June 20, 1981; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 23-September 20, 1981. Williamstown, Mass., The Sterling and Francine Art Institute, "A Romance With Realism: The Art of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux," May 7-August 27, 1989, cat. 22.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Carpeaux / French, 1827-1875
- Date
- 1865
- Medium
- Black and red chalk on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.4 × 12.8 cm (8 1/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund
- Accession no.
- 1974.29
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