Jehan-Georges Vibert
The Missionary's Adventures
188399.1 x 134.6 cm
Oil on wood
Signed lower left: J.G.Vibert.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900
Literature
Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velazquez, New York, New Haven, 2003, fig. 11.4
Provenance
with Goupil & Cie, Paris, 1883, purchased on 31 August from the artist, sold on 25 October to Knoedler
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1883–84, sold on 3 March 1884, to Morgan
Mary J. Morgan, New York, 1884–died 1885
her estate sale, American Art Association, New York, 5 March 1886, nr. 231, to Huntington
Collis P. Huntington, New York, 1886–died 1900
bequest to MMA with life interest to his widow, Arabella D. Huntington, later (from 1913) Mrs. Henry E. Huntington, 1900–died 1924
life interest to their son, Archer Milton Huntington, 1924–terminated in 1925