Three Arabs Carrying Serving Dishes and Cooking Utensils
Framed: 20 3/4 × 27 1/2 × 3/4 inches (52.71 × 69.85 × 1.91 cm)
Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Three Arabs.
Master Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 72, as Three Arabs Carrying Serving Dishes and Cooking Utensils.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Three Arabs Carrying Serving Dishes and Cooking Utensils.
With Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876), Paris, 1853–1876 [1];
His posthumous sale, La vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Eug. Fromentin: ses tableaux, études, aquarelles, dessins et croquis, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 30–31, February 2–3, 1877, lot 291, as Groupe d’Arabes;
With Richard Owen, Paris, by September 26–December 1, 1932 [2];
Purchased from Owen, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] See red stamp at lower right of drawing, with inscription at the center “160.” See Lugt 957, http://www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/6911/total/1#
[2] See letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, art advisor to NAMA, to J. C. Nichols, NAMA Trustee, September 26, 1932, NAMA curatorial file.
Catalogue de la vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Eug. Fromentin: ses tableaux, études, aquarelles, dessins et croquis (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, January 30-31. February 2-3, 1877), 56, as Groupe d’Arabes.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 7, 57, (repro.), as Three Arabs.
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), 219-21, (repro.), as Three Arabs Carrying Serving Dishes and Cooking Utensils.
