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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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