Portrait of a Man in Uniform
Exposition Meissonier, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1893, no. 924, as Turcaret.
War and Suffering, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 17, 2007-May 17, 2008, no cat., as Portrait of a Man in Uniform.
Acquired from the artist by Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895), by March 1893-1895 [1];
His posthumous sale, Succession M. Alexandre Dumas, Galerie Georges Petit, March 2-3, 1896, lot 104, as Turcaret,
With Arnold Seligmann, Rey, & Co., New York, by 1932;
Purchased from Arnold Seligmann, Rey, & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] Alexandre Dumas, son of the novelist of the same name and a celebrated author in his own right, was friends with Meissonier, who painted Dumas' portrait in 1877. Dumas lent this watercolor to Exposition Meissonier , Galerie Georges Petit, in March 1893. The exhibition catalogue describes their friendship: "On sait quelle ami “On sait quelle amitié unissait Alexandre Dumas à Meissonier. Si l’on voulait conter par le menu les anecdotes qui se rattachent à chacun des dessins réunis ici, il faudrait Presque un volume.” (“We know what friendship untied Alexandre Dumas and Meissonier. If we were to recount in detail the anecdotes which are attached to each of the drawings brought together here, it would take a volume.”)
Exposition Meissonier, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1893), 98, as Turcaret.
Succession Alexandre Dumas (Paris: Galerie George Petit, 1896), 43, as Turcaret.
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 261, as Man in Uniform.
