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Seated African Woman

Seated African Woman

1860s
(French, 1843–1871)
France, 19th century
oil on fabric
Framed: 71.8 x 61.6 x 7.7 cm (28 1/4 x 24 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 57.2 x 47.2 cm (22 1/2 x 18 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 1980.280
Location: not on view
  • Paris sale, Drouot, 16 March 1976 (lot 128), "L'esclave noire, toile 56 x 46, monogramme en bas à gauche," for ff 2,300. Shepherd Gallery, New York. Bought in August 1976 by Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1980.
  • Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 522-524, Vol. II, no. 183
    Bondil, Nathalie, Samuel Montiège, Valerie Behiery, and Benjamin-Constant. Benjamin-Constant: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Paris, Frarnce : Hazan, 2014. Reproduced: P. 29, fig. 8
  • Benjamin-Constant and Orientalism During the French Third Republic. Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France (October 4, 2014-January 4, 2015); Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (organizer) (January 26-May 31, 2015).
    Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France (10/4/2014 - 1/4/2015) and Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec (1/26/2015 - 6/7/2015): "Benjamin-Constant and Orientalism During the French Third Republic"
    Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).
    CMA. The Artist and the Studio in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1978), no. 28, 52, 54 (repr.).
  • {{cite web|title=Seated African Woman|url=false|author=Henri Regnault|year=1860s|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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