Auguste-Xavier Leprince
A Man from the Middle East in the Artist's Studio
c. 1823-2632.7 x 24.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003
Provenance
the artist, Paris, until d. 1826
his atelier sale, Hôtel de Bullion, 3 rue J. J. Rousseau, Paris, 12 March 1827, nr. 16, as “Figure de Turc; modèle dans un atelier”
with Moyon, Paris, until 1838
his sale, Hôtel de Ventes, Paris, 16-20 January 1838, nr. 529, as “Etude de turc dans un atelier (214),” unsold
second Moyon sale, 20-23 February 1838, nr. 529, apparently bought in and subsequently reverted to the artist's family
presumably the artist's family, Paris, by descent, until 1980
sale, Loudmer & Poulain, Paris, 30 March 1980, nr. 87, as "Personnage assis, vêtu à l'oriental," for Fr 17,000, to Hazlitt
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, from 1980; sold to Goldyne
Joseph Goldyne, San Francisco, Calif., until 1986; sold 24 February to Whitney
Wheelock Whitney III, New York (from 1986)
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