Coming Out of the Opera

Artist Compte-Calix (French, 1813 - 1880)

Date19th century

MediumWatercolor and graphite on paper

DimensionsOverall: 7 3/16 × 9 7/8 inches (18.26 × 25.08 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-193/13

SignedSigned lower right: F. COMPTE-CALIX

Inscribedgraphite inscription on the verso of the drawing: Louis Verre

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Le Panorama Salon, Champs-Elysées et Champ-de-Mars, Paris, 1903, no. 23.

Paris: A Collage, Kansas Union Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, January 25-February 13, 1976, no. 8.

Paris in the Belle Epoque: People and Places, St. Petersburg [FL] Museum of Fine Arts, March 1-April 6, 1980.

Provenance

Possibly Louis Verre [1];

With Richard Owen, Paris, by September 26, 1932-December 1, 1932 [2];

Purchased from Owen, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] There is a graphite inscription on the verso of the drawing: Louis Verre

[2] See letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, art advisor to NAMA, to J. C. Nichols, NAMA Trustee, September 26, 1932.

Published References

Le Panorama Salon, exh. cat. (1903): no. 23.

Jeanne Stump and Howard Collinson, Paris, a Collage, exh. cat. (Lawrence, KS: Kansas Union Gallery, 1976).

Marion L. Grayson, Paris in the Belle Epoque: People and Places, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, 1980).

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