The Choice of a Model
1868-1874
Painter, Spanish, 1838 - 1874

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 53.34 × 82.55 cm (21 × 32 1/2 in.)
framed: 86.36 × 116.84 × 13.97 cm (34 × 46 × 5 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.143.12
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Reserved March 1869 in the artist's studio by William Hood Stewart [1820-1897], Philadelphia and Paris; (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3-4 February 1898, 2nd day, no. 114); William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Fortuny (1838-1874), Exh. cat., Museu Nacional dArt de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2003: no. 111, 300-304, 531.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1878
Spanish Section of the Fine Arts, Fortuny Gallery, Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1878, no. 29.
1883
Exposition de Peinture. Cent Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections Parisiennes, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1883, no. 41, repro.
1901
Exhibition of the Works of Spanish Painters, London, 1901, no. 180.
1970
Fortuny and his Circle, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 30 March - 15 May 1970, no. 12.
2003
Fortuny (1838-1874), Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 17 October 2003 - 18 January 2004, no. 111, repro.
2017
Mariano Fortuny (1838-1874), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2017-2018, no. 68.
2018
Loan for display with permanent collection, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 2018-2019.
2019
Fortuny: Friends and Followers, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 2019.
Boldini y la pintura española a finales del siglo XIX: el espiritu de una época [Boldini and Spanish Painting of the late 19th Century: The Spirit of an Age], Fundación MAPFRE, Instituto de Cultura, Madrid, 2019-2020, no. 40, repro.
Bibliography
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 182-183, no. 199.
Inscriptions
lower right: Fortuny '74
Wikidata ID
Q46629622