About This Artwork

Elie Lascaux
French, 1888-1968

Chartres Cathedral, 1930

Oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 39 3/8 in. (81.5 x 100 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "LASCAUX"
Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham, 1954.1358

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, December 9–December 31, 1936, no. 24 as Chartres.

Publication History

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 50, pl. 2D7.

Ownership History

Joseph Winterbotham, Chicago, by October 1936–1954 [annotated inventory, October 2, 1936, in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.