Phaethon Drives the Chariot of the Sun
- Kirkwood Hall
By descent to his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York, 1913-November 25, 1932 [1];
Purchased from Morgan by French and Company, New York, stock no. 17698A-H, November 25, 1932-January 30, 1933 [2];
Purchased from French and Company by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] J. P. Morgan, Sr. lent three of the eight tapestries in this series to the Wadsworth Atheneum in December 1909 and they remained there until May 1932. J. P. Morgan, Jr. lent the remaining five tapestries in the series to the Wadsworth Atheneum from March 1928 to August 1932.
[2] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, French and Company Stock Sheets, box 17, folder 4 and Getty Photo Archive, 76.P.43, Textiles box 9. Morgan consigned five of the eight tapestries to French and Company from 1925 to 1928, but they failed to sell. They were returned to Morgan, who then lent them to the Wadsworth Atheneum (see note 1).
Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. (Kansas City, MO: The Joseph D. Havens Co., 1933), 80 (repro.).
“The William R. Nelson Gellery of Art and the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts,” The Teachers College Scout vol. 5, no. 1 (April, 1934, Teachers College of Kansas City, Kanas City, MO), 48 (repro.).
