A Street in Tangiers, 1860 or 1862

Not on View

Medium

watercolor on paper

Dimensions

sheet: 14 7/16 x 19 3/4 in. (36.67 x 50.17 cm)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.296

Artists / Makers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal (artist) Spanish, 1838 - 1874

Image Use

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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.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran 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 Unpublished manuscript, 1925: pt. 1, 181, no. 196.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.