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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections," 22 July - 3 October 1972 [no cat.].

Publication History

Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Catalogue des tableaux, dessins, esquisses et marbres par Carpeaux (May 30, 1894), lot 543.

Frances A. Yates, "Transformations of Dante's Ugolino," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 13 (1950), p. 117, fig. 22b.

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture (1975), p. 123, figs. 14-15a.

Jeremy Cooper, Nineteenth-Century Romantic Bronzes: French, English and American Bronzes, 1830-1915 (New York, 1975), pp. 29, 73, ill. opp. p. 73.

Paris, Grand Palais, Sur les traces de Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (March 11 - May 5, 1975), p. 89, no. 82.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from North American Collections (1980), pp. 146-48, nos. 31 and 32.

Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1827-1875: sculptures, peintrues, dessins (1980), no. 14.

Claude Jeancolas, Carpeaux: La farouche volonté d'etre (Lausanne, 1987), p. 72.

Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, sculpteur: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre édité (Paris, 2003), pp. 71-73.

Ownership History

Private collection, Paris [according to original dealer solicitation and letter from Ay-Whang Hsia to Brandon Ruud, October 21, 2002, in curatorial file]. Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1971; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.