Inscription
lower right: AR
Provenance
John W. Macartney, Washington, at least in 1897.[1] Rudolph Max Kauffmann [1882-1956], Chevy Chase, Maryland;[2] gift 21 April 1954 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
Exhibition History
- 1897
- Loan Exhibition of Paintings under the auspices of the Society of Washington Artists, Washington, 1897, no. 51, as A Chief of Abyssinia.[1]
- 1982
- Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting 1800-1880, Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, 1982, fig. 86.
- 1983
- La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 20, repro.
- 2014
- Benjamin-Constant: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2014-2015, no. 6, repro. (shown only in Montreal).
- 2017
- The Black Figure in the European Imaginary, The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, 2017, pl. 23.
Exhibition History Notes
[1] A torn label from this exhibition is on the painting's frame.
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