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Seated African Woman
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: HR [monogram]
Provenance
Paris sale, Drouot, 16 March 1976 (lot 128), "L'esclave noire, toile 56 x 46, monogramme en bas à gauche," for ff 2,300. Shepherd Gallery, New York. Bought in August 1976 by Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980.
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). Benjamin-Constant and Orientalism During the French Third Republic. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France (October 4, 2014-January 4, 2015); Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (organizer) (January 26-May 31, 2015).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henri Regnault (French, 1843–1871)
- Date
- 1860s
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 71.8 x 61.6 x 7.7 cm (28 1/4 x 24 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 57.2 x 47.2 cm (22 1/2 x 18 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Accession no.
- 1980.280
More by Henri Regnault in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010308
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