Rest on the Flight into Egypt

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1885/90

Jean Charles Cazin
French, 1841-1901

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean Charles Cazin
Title: Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1885
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: J C Cazin
Dimensions: 59.6 × 73 cm (23 1/2 × 28 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. E. P. Renouf
Reference Number: 1983.1770
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“Les Salons de 1905,” Art et décoration 17 (May 1905), pp. 162 (ill.), 163, 166.

Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, cat. 2881.
Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Salon de 1905, cat. 274.

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.

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