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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 15, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | The European Art Sale | 409 | $****** - ****** | Good | The Barque of Dante |
paintings
34.3 x 39.4 cm (13.5 x 15.5 in)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
W. P. Wright, New Jersey, by 1876
Sale: Henry H. Leeds & Miner, New York, 18 March, 1867, no. 29
John Taylor Johnston
Sale: New York, 19 December, 1876, no. 48 to S. Colman for $750; [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]
Samuel Colman, N.A., New York
Sale: American Art Association, New York, 25 March, 1903, lot 58 as “Dante and Virgil Crossing the Styx” for $850 [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in The Frick Art Reference Library, New York]
Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago [according to Art Institute of Chicago 1921]
His widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918)
By descent to their sons Honoré and Potter Palmer
Given by them to the Art Institute, 1922
Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1921 (Chicago, 1921), ill.
“Delacroix’s Dante and Virgil,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 15, 6 (1921), pp. 170-71 (ill.), 172-73
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), pp. 47 (ill.), 134, no. 818
Daniel Catton Rich, “Delacroix and Modern Painting,” Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings and Prints by Eugène Delacroix , exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1930), pp. 5, 9, 11
“A Loan Exhibition of Works by Delacroix,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 24, 4 (1930), p. 47
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 43 (ill.), 150
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture , June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 244
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture , June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 188
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Relationships Between French Literature and Painting in the Nineteenth Century , April-May 1938, cat. 2
San Francisco Museum of Art, French Romantic Artists , April 19-May 14, 1939, cat. 28
Walter Gordon, “Study Galleries for Interpretation of Art Exhibitions,” Museum News 18, 4 (1940), p. 11
“Eugene Delacroix: An Exhibition Opening Jan. 15,” Portland Art Museum Bulletin 1, 3 (1940), p. 2
Henry McBride, “Conversation Piece,” Art News 49, 5 (1950), p. 20 (ill.)
Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Dante in Art , February 2-March 14, 1965, cat. 3
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto and Pierre Georgel, Tout l’œuvre peint de Delacroix (Paris: Flammarion, 1975), p. 91, under no. 39
Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue , vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 74, no. 2b
Juan J. Luna, Eugène Delacroix , exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo del Prado, Ministerio de Cultura, 1987), no page no., under no. 2
Property of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Eugène Delacroix
French
1798 - 1863
The Barque of Dante
oil on paper laid down on canvas
canvas: 13½ by 15½ in.; 34 by 40.2 cm
framed: 17¼ by 20¾ in.; 43.8 by 52.7 cm
