About This Artwork

Jean Charles Cazin
French, 1841-1901

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1885/90

Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (59.6 x 73 cm)
Inscribed lower right: J C Cazin
Bequest of Mrs. E. P. Renouf, 1983.1770

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, cat. 2881.

Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Salon de 1905, cat. 274.

Publication History

"Les Salons de 1905," Art et décoration 17 (May 1905), pp. 162 (ill.), 163, 166.

Ownership History

Maple and Co., Paris [according to label on reverse]. Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris [according to Old World Arts label on reverse of painting, copy in curatorial file]. Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, by 1893 [lent to World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, cat. 2881]. Thurber Art Galleries, Chicago, by 1931 [according to the catalogue of the sale at Grant's Art Galleries, Chicago, cited below]; sold to Edward Valentine Price, Chicago, by 1931 [according to the sale catalogue citied below; Thurber Gallery closed in 1931]; sale of his collection, Grant's Art Galleries, Chicago, March 20, 1935, lot 47. Howard Young Galleries, New York [according to label on reverse]. Old World Arts, Ltd., New York by 1937 [according to receipt/label cited below]; sold to Mrs. E. P. Renouf (died 1982), June 5, 1937 [copy of receipt/label, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1983.