2022, Eskenazi Museum of Art purchase from the American University of Art Museum Collection Sale, facilitated by Sand of Time Gallery, Washington DC
2014–2022, American University Museum, Washington DC
2014, Gift to the American University Museum as part of the Clark Antiquities Collection by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC [1]
1926–2014, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
1925, Gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. by William A. Clark, Washington DC [2]
ca. 1911–1925, Private Collection of William A. Clark, Washington DC
ca. 1911, William A. Clark purchase from Raphael Collin, Paris, France [3]
during 1890–1910, Raphael Collin acquires along with other antiquities [4]
Notes:
[1] The Corcoran Gallery of Art closed in 2014.
[2] In 1925, American politician and entrepreneur William A. Clark (1839–1925) bequeathed a major portion of his large and varied collection to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC. The large gift of more than eight hundred objects, accessioned the following year, included European and American paintings; Near Eastern carpets; European drawings, sculpture, tapestries, antique lace, ceramics, furniture, decorative arts, and Greek and Roman antiquities.
[3] Clark purchased his antiquities as a group from the French painter Raphael Collin, an artist who was awarded the Grand Prix at the Exposition Universelle Internationale de Paris in 1889.
[4] Raphael Collin noted in a catalogue of his collection (1911) that he assembled his antiquities collection between 1890 and 1910 with the assistance of experts from the Louvre, particularly
Edmond Pottier, who was curator in the Department of Eastern Antiquities at the Musee du Louvre from 1908 to 1925.
Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.
