A Street in Tangiers, 1860 or 1862

Inscription

lower right in watercolor: A M Stewart / son ami / Fortuny 1869

Provenance

William H. Stewart [1820-1897], Philadelphia and Paris; (his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 3-4 February 1898, 2nd day, no. 106); William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (inv. 2090); acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Exhibition History

1972

To Look on Nature: European and American Landscape, 1800-1874. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, February 3 - March 5, 205-206, pl. 75.

1978

The William A. Clark Collection. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, April 26- July 17.

1989

The William A. Clark Collection: Treasures of a Copper King. Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT, 1989, p. 25, ill.

2003

Fortuny (1838-1874). Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2003, no. 70.

2017

Mariano Fortuny (1838-1874), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2017-2018.

Bibliography

1925

Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Unpublished manuscript, 1925: pt. 1, 181, no. 196.

1928

Illustrated Handbook of The W. A. Clark Collection. Washington, DC, 1928: 42.

1932

Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1932: 44.

1971

Johnston, W. R. "W. H. Stewart, the American Patron of Mariano Fortuny," Gazette des Beaux Arts (March 1971): 184-188.

1982

Rosenthal, Donald A.. Orientalism: The Near East in French Painting 1800-1880. Exh. cat., Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 133, fig. 129.

1989

González López, Carlos, Montse Martí, and Juan Ainaud de Lasarte. Mariano Fortuny Marsal. Tomo I. in Maestros del Arte de los siglos XIX y XX. Barcelona, 1989: 288- 289, nos. 135, 135 bis (detail).

2008

Torres Gonzalez, Begona. Fortuny: un mundo en miniatura. Madrid, 2008: 286-287.

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