The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  Until 1979 Latest Date: 1979

  George S. Kendrick, Cleveland, Ohio, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

  1979-

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 The provenance of this painting prior to Kendrick’s ownership is at this time unknown.  The 1911 Fantin-Latour catalogue raisonné, for instance, contains no provenance information.  Tracing the painting’s whereabouts is made more difficult by the fact that Fantin-Latour painted over 800 flower paintings, including over 100 depicting only roses.  The Cleveland painting may have been located in the UK shortly after it creation, as in the 1870s the artist’s friend Edwin Edwards acted as an agent for English collectors, and so many of Fantin-Latour’s paintings at one time passed through England or Scotland.  In 1951, the Cleveland picture was exhibited at the Scott & Fowles gallery in New York (no. 10).  The exhibited works’ owners are not indicated, but a list of lenders is included in the exhibition catalogue.  Thus far, an investigation into the collections of the listed individuals and institutions has not yielded an appearance of the Cleveland painting.  
• Citations
  d'Argencourt, Louise, Roger Diederen, and Alisa Luxenberg. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.

  Rousuck, E.J. E.J. Rousuck Invites You to a Spring Show of Fantin-Latour: Flowers, Fruits, Figures. New York: Scott & Fowles, 1951.

  Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Mentioned: cat. no. 55, p. 61, 96 www.jstor.org

  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. 268-269, Vol. I, no. 97
• Exhibition History
  The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987).

  Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
• Cite this Page
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