Pandora
1910/1912
Artist, French, 1840 - 1916


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 80
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 143.5 x 62.9 cm (56 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.)
framed: 161.9 x 81 cm (63 3/4 x 31 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1963.10.56
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jules Chavasse, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1922, no. 26, repro.). Mrs. A. Bing, New York, by 1928.[1] (Reinhardt Galleries, New York); probably by whom sold to Mrs. Lotus Robb Smith, New York, c. 1927/28 until at least 1931; sold 1937 by an anonymous collector to (Julius H. Weitzner [1896-1986], London and New York);[2] sold 20 October 1950 to Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York; gift 1963 to NGA.
[1]Lent by Mrs. Bing to exhibition at Cesar de Hauke's New York gallery in 1928; see Seligmann papers at the Archives of American Art, box 406 (copy NGA curatorial files).
[2]See Weitzner receipt dated 20 October 1950 in NGA curatorial files. The anonymous collector who sold Weitzner the painting is almost certainly Mr. Smith, whom Lotus Robb divorced c. 1937. She later married Mr. Marvin Ross, who detailed how she returned the paintings to her former husband when they divorced, and he immediately sold them; see note by David Rust dated January 1965 in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1928
Odilon Redon, De Hauke & Co., New York, 1928, no. 11.
1940
Possibly Masterpieces of Art. European & American Paintings 1500-1900, New York World's Fair, 1940, no. 350.
1947
Symbolism in Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and numerous other venues, 1947-1948.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
2010
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 138, repro.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 108.
Frankfurter, Alfred. "How Great is the Dale Collection?" Art News 64 (May 1965):40-43, 51-53, repro.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 96, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 282, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 515, no. 770, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 327, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: ODILON REDON
Wikidata ID
Q18001840