Soldiers by a Grotto
Framed: 20 x 26 x 1 1/4 inches (50.8 x 66.04 x 3.18 cm)
Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums, Detroit Institute of Arts, June 1-September 15, 1950, no. 14.
Art in the Age of Revolution, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, July 14-December 1, 1989, no cat.
Master European Drawing from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993; and at three other institutions, July 9, 1993-March 6, 1994.
Durer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 24, 1996; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21 1996-March 2, 1997.
Durer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998.
Looking at Historic Lands, Urban and Rural, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26 2006-April 1, 2007.
Looking at Historic Lands, Urban and Rural, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26, 2006-April 1, 2007; February 15-June 10, 2012.
With Richard Owen, Paris, by November 1932-November 3, 1933 [1];
Purchased by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] According to a letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, NAMA buyer, to Herbert V. Jones, NAMA trustee, November 4, 1933, Owen lent the drawing to the museum for the past year.
John S. Newberry, Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950), unpaginated.
Alexandre Ananoff, l’Œuvre Dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) (Paris: F. de Nobele, 1961), no. 1095, p. 186, (repro.).
Peter Walch, “Foreign Artists at Naples: 1750-1799,” in “Special Issue Devoted to Neapolitan Art in the Eighteenth Century,” The Burlington Magazine 112, no. 913, (April 1979): 248, 256, (repro.), as Soliders by a Grotto, after Salvator Rosa.
Jean-Pierre Cuzin, “De Fragonard à Vincent,” Bulletin De La Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, Année 1981 (1983): 118-19, 124n68, (repro.), as by François-André Vincent, Soldats dans un paysage.
Anna Kozak, Maciej Monkiewicz, and Teresa Sulerzyska, Master European Drawings from Polish Collections, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1993).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 130, 193, (repro.).
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 168-70, (repro.), as Soldiers by a Grotto.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 105, (repro.).
