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Portrait of Eugène Lacheurié
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower right, in graphite: "à Madame Lacheurié / Gustave Moreau / 1852"
Provenance
Given by the artist to Mme Lacheurie, Paris, 1852 [inscription]. Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Davis. Minneapolis and London, by 1959 [New York 1959]. Mrs. Jean K. Benjamin, New York, by 1976 [Mathieu 1976]. Sold by Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, to the Art Institute, 1982.
Exhibition history
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse," February 3-March 15, 1959, cat. 142. London, Hazlitt, Gooden, and Fox, "Nineteenth-Century French Drawings," June 10-July 10, 1981, cat. 46. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 142-143, cat. 64 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Acquisitions in the Regenstein Collection 1972-1989," February 2-May 8, 1990. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 40; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)," September 28, 1998-January 4, 1999, cat. 4; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 10-April 25, 1999; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 7-September 9, 1999.
Publications
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, with a catalogue of the finished paintings, watercolors, and drawings (Boston, 1976), p. 296, no. 10 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (Chicago, 1981), p. 12 (ill.). Julius Kaplan, "The Art of Gustave Moreau: Theory, Style, and Context" (Ann Arbor, 1982), no. 35. Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau (Paris, 1994), p. 22 (ill.). "Maineri to Miro: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), pp. 74-75 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Moreau / French, 1826-1898
- Date
- 1852
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 32.3 × 24.5 cm (12 3/4 × 9 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1982.1
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