Musical Instruments

Modern Art

1912

Jacques Villon
French, 1875-1963

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Jacques Villon
Title: Musical Instruments
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.: 1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, l.l.: "Jacques Villon 12"
Dimensions: 106.7 × 80.3 cm (42 × 31 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Steegmuller
Reference Number: 1942.305
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Jacques Lassaigne, Jacques Villon, Peintres et Sculpteurs d’Aujourd’Hui (Paris, 1950), p. 8.
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Jacques Villon, exh. cat. (Paris: Editions des musées nationaux, 1951), p. 14 (cat. 5), as Instruments de Musique, 1912.
Art Institute, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), p. 462, as Musical Instruments.
Steegmuller, Francis, intro., Jacques Villon: Master Printmaker, exh. cat. (New York: 1964), n.p., as Instruments de Musique.
Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 16, 74 (no. 4C1), as Musical Instruments, 1912.

Chicago, University of Chicago, New Administrative building, June–November, 1949, no cat.
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Jacques Villon, February 5–March 25, 1951, p. 14 (cat. 5), as Instruments de Musique, 1912.

The artist; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Steegmuller, New York, c. 1935 [Steegmuller 1964]; given to the Art Institute Chicago, Oct. 27, 1942.

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