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Quantin, 1881), pp. 29, 82.\n\nWalter Rowlands, \u201cArt Sales in America,\u201d Art News 40 (1888), p. 318.\n\n\u201cDrift of the Dog Days,\u201d The Collector 4, 16 (1893), p. 247.\n\n\u201cGives Her Pictures: Mrs. Henry Field Donates a Collection to the Art Institute,\u201d Chicago Daily Tribune (June 4, 1893), p. 10.\n\nRoger Riordan, \u201cThe World\u2019s Fair Loan Exhibition: Contemporary Painting,\u201d The Art Amateur 30, 5 (1894), p. 130.\n\n\u201cThe Henry Field Memorial Collection,\u201d The Art Amateur 31, 6 (1894), p. 115. \n\n\u201cThe Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d The Art Amateur 32, 1 (1894), p. 19.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year Ending June 4, 1895 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 37.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, pt. 1 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 73, no. 28.\n\nAmerican Art Annual 1898 1 (1899), p. 140, no. 28.\n\nFrederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy (Chicago: Hammond Press, 1901), p. 712. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 161, no. 128.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 167, no. 128.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 178, no. 128.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 170, no. 128.\n\nPierre Blanchon, Eug\u00e8ne Fromentin: Corresondance et Fragments in\u00e9dits (Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1912), p. 203 n. 2.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 114, no. 128.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 118, no. 128.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 118, no. 128.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 137, no. 128.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 153.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 166.  \n\nFouad Marcos, Fromentin et l\u2019Afrique (Sherbrooke: \u00c9ditions Cosmos, 1973), pp. 141, 209.  \n\nJames Thompson, \u201cEug\u00e8ne Fromentin: Painter and Writer\u201d (Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, 1984), vol. 1, pp. 234\u201335, no. 160; vol. 2 p. 81, no. 160 (ill.). \n\nMaureen C. O\u2019Brien, 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.\n\nJames Thompson and Barbara Wright, La vie et l\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019Eug\u00e8ne Fromentin (Courbevoie: ACR \u00c9ditions, 1987), pp. 73, 84, 218, 224\u201325 (ill.), 240\u201341, 280. \n\nSotheby\u2019s, New York, 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, sale cat. (Sotheby\u2019s, May 23, 1996), lot. 72.\n\nBarbara Wright, Eug\u00e8ne Fromentin: A Life in Art and Letters (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 205, 254, 401, 423, 549. \n\nJames Thompson and Barbara Wright, Eug\u00e8ne Fromentin 1820\u20131876: Visions d\u2019Alg\u00e9rie et d\u2019\u00c9gypte (Courbevoie: ACR \u00c9ditions, 2008), pp. 254, 258\u201359, 261, 273 (ill.), 282, 288, 327\u201328.","exhibition_history":"Paris, Salon de 1867, 1867, no. 619.\n\nChicago, World\u2019s Columbian Exposition: Department of Fine Arts, 1893, no. 3097. \n\nProvidence, Rhode Island School of Design, French Painting in Africa, April 1935, no cat.","provenance_text":"Collection of the artist, 1867 [lent by him to Paris 1867]. Possibly Durand-Ruel, 1867 [see catalogue of Albert Spencer sale, cited below]. 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