Women of the Ouled Nayls

1867

Eugène Fromentin
French, 1820-1876

On View: Painting and Sculpture of Europe, Gallery 223

Artist: Eugène Fromentin
Title: Women of the Ouled Nayls
Origin: France
Date: 1867
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: Eug Fromentin
Dimensions: 110.2 × 72.4 cm (43 3/8 × 28 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Henry Field Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1894.1060

Louis Gonse, Eugène Fromentin: peintre et écrivain (Paris: A. Quantin, 1881), pp. 29, 82.
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“Gives Her Pictures: Mrs. Henry Field Donates a Collection to the Art Institute,” Chicago Daily Tribune (June 4, 1893), p. 10.
Roger Riordan, “The World’s Fair Loan Exhibition: Contemporary Painting,” The Art Amateur 30, 5 (1894), p. 130.
“The Henry Field Memorial Collection,” The Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115.
“The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19.
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, pt. 1 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 73, no. 28.
American Art Annual 1898 1 (1899), p. 140, no. 28.
Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 712.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 161, no. 128.
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Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 178, no. 128.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 170, no. 128.
Pierre Blanchon, Eugène Fromentin: Corresondance et Fragments inédits (Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1912), p. 203 n. 2.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 114, no. 128.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 118, no. 128.
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 118, no. 128.
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Fouad Marcos, Fromentin et l’Afrique (Sherbrooke: Éditions Cosmos, 1973), pp. 141, 209.
James Thompson, “Eugène Fromentin: Painter and Writer” (Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, 1984), vol. 1, pp. 234–35, no. 160; vol. 2 p. 81, no. 160 (ill.).
Maureen C. O’Brien, In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the 1883 Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition, exh. cat. (Southampton, New York: Parrish Art Museum, 1986), pp. 51 n. 67, 152 n. 3.
James Thompson and Barbara Wright, La vie et l’œuvre d’Eugène Fromentin (Courbevoie: ACR Éditions, 1987), pp. 73, 84, 218, 224–25 (ill.), 240–41, 280.
Sotheby’s, New York, 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, sale cat. (Sotheby’s, May 23, 1996), lot. 72.
Barbara Wright, Eugène Fromentin: A Life in Art and Letters (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 205, 254, 401, 423, 549.
James Thompson and Barbara Wright, Eugène Fromentin 1820–1876: Visions d’Algérie et d’Égypte (Courbevoie: ACR Éditions, 2008), pp. 254, 258–59, 261, 273 (ill.), 282, 288, 327–28.

Paris, Salon de 1867, 1867, no. 619.
Chicago, World’s Columbian Exposition: Department of Fine Arts, 1893, no. 3097.
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, French Painting in Africa, April 1935, no cat.

Collection of the artist, 1867 [lent by him to Paris 1867]. Possibly Durand-Ruel, 1867 [see catalogue of Albert Spencer sale, cited below]. Marmontel; his sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 11–12, 1868, lot 36 as “Femmes des Ouled-Nayls (Sahara)” for 9,400 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Edward Matthews, New York [see Spencer sale cited below]; sold to Albert Spencer, New York, by 1888; his sale Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York, February 28, 1888, lot 65 for $6,400 [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

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