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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.261
People
Attributed to Adolphe Monticelli, French (1824 - 1886)
Title
Woman Walking with Dog
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Emma Ricard (?) / Empress Eugenie in the Garden of the Tuileries
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1860
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230111

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on heavy cardboard
Dimensions
25.8 x 17.3 cm (10 3/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
frame: 33.6 x 25.4 x 5.5 cm (13 1/4 x 10 x 2 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Monticelli
  • inscription: on back of frame, in white chalk: EMPRESS EUGENIE
  • inscription: on back of panel, in black ink: Adolphe Monticelli / 1824-1886 / Eugenie Marie de Montijo, Empress of France, / in the gardens of the Tuileries
  • label: on back of panel, handwritten in black: 987
  • label: on back of panel, handwritten in black: 4111 [over] ISS [or 155?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
M. Delarbeyrette, Paris, sold; to [H. O. Watson, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1903, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.261
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Aaron Sheon, Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA, 1978), p. 42; repr. b/w p. 172, no. 25
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 121; repr. as no. 341

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lyon, 1860, [Unknown venue, Lyon], Lyon, 01/01/1860 - 12/31/1860
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Marseilles, 1860, [Unknown venue, Marseille], Marseille, 01/01/1860 - 12/31/1860

Verification Level

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