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The National Gallery Immunity from Seizure Immunity from Seizure THE NATIONAL GALLERY IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art 17 Feb 2016 - 22 May 2016 The National Gallery, London, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN Immunity from Seizure IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art 17 Feb 2016 - 22 May 2016 The National Gallery, London, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN The National Gallery is able to provide immunity from seizure under part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. This Act provides protection from seizure for cultural objects from abroad on loan to temporary exhibitions in approved museums and galleries in the UK. The conditions are: The object is usually kept outside the UK It is not owned by a person resident in the UK Its import does not contravene any import regulations It is brought to the UK for public display in a temporary exhibition at a museum or gallery The borrowing museum or gallery is approved under the Act The borrowing museum has published information about the object For further enquiries, please contact [email protected] Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed in this document, which are intended to form part of the forthcoming exhibition, Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art. Copyright Notice: no images from these pages should be reproduced without permission. Immunity from Seizure Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art 17 Feb 2016 - 22 May 2016 Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed below: Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) © The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois X8193 Lion Hunt 1861 Place of manufacture: France Oil on canvas Object dimensions: 76.2 x 96.5 cm The Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection Lender's name and address The Art Institute of Chicago 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60603 - 6404 USA Provenance: Possibly sold from the artist to Vaisse for 2,500 francs [this and the following information according to Johnson 1989]; Comte d’Aquila, his sale, February 21-22, 1868, lot 7, sold for 14,505 francs; Faure, Paris, 1885 [according to Robaut 1885, see also catalogue of 1892 sale citied below]; R. Austin Robertson, New York, his estate sale, New York, American Art Association, April 7, 1892, lot 147 (ill.); sold for 13,000 francs to Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922. This provenance is published on the website of the Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/81505 Immunity from Seizure Bibliography and exhibition history: Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Eugene Delacroix, March 6-April 16, 1885, cat. 76; The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings From the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, August 1910, cat. 22; The Art Institute of Chicago, Delacroix, March 20-April 20, 1930, cat. 43; Paris, Musée du Louvre, Exposition Eugène Delacroix, June-September 1930, cat. 191; The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 246; The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 192; Springfield, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts, From David to Cézanne, February 9-March 10, 1935, cat. 16; Pittsburg, Carnegie Institute, A Survey of French Painting, April 2-May 14, 1936, cat. 17; Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Gericault, Delacroix, Chasseriau, Painters of the Romantic Movement, April 30-June1, 1946, no cat. no.; Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Expressionism in American Painting, May 10–June 29, 1952, cat. 3 (ill.); Venice, XXVIII Biennale di Venezia, May–September 1956, cat. 42; Los Angeles, University of California –Los Angeles Art Council, French Masters From Rococo to Romanticism, March 5–April 16, 1961, no cat. no. (ill.); Paris, Musée du Louvre, Centrenaire d’Eugéne Delacroix, May-September, 1963, cat. 521; Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Delacroix, August 14-September 12, 1964, cat. 75, traveled to London, Royal Academy of Arts, October 1-November 8, 1964; Stockholm, Natinalmuseum, Delacroix’ Lejonakter, October 1-December 6, 1981, cat. 28 (ill.); Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1986, cat. 1 (ill.), traveled to Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5-February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Delacroix les dernières années, April 7-July 20, 1998, cat. 23 (ill.), traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 10, 1998-January 3, 1999; Charlottenlund/Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Delacroix: The Music of Painting, September 13-December 30, 2000, cat. 16 (ill.); Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsuhe, Eugène Delacroix, November 1, 2003-February1, 2004, cat. 22 (ill.). Alfred Robaut, L’Oeuvre Complet de Eugene Delacroix (Paris, 1885), no. 1350; Jean Maurice Tourneaux, Eugène Delacroix devant ses contemporains (Paris, 1886), p. 144; Reginald Wilenski, French Painting (Boston, 1931), pl. 85, pp. 209, 212; Journal de Eugene Delacroix, 1932, vol. 2, pp. 334, 317, 389, 402; The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 190; Hans Tietze, Meisterwerks Europäischer Malerei in Amerika (Vienna, 1935), no. 265 (ill.); Jean Cassou, Delacroix (Paris, 1947), no. 40; Lee Johnson, “Delacroix at the Biennale,” Burlington Magazine 98 (September 1956), pp. 324–330, (ill) 329; Giuseppe Marchiori, Delacroix alla Biennale (Venice, 1956), p. 37; Karchiori, Delacroix alla Biennale, 1956, pp. 36, (ill.) 37; The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), pp. 32-33; The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 123, (ill.) p. 244; Jean Leymarie, French Painting: The Nineteenth Century, trans. James Emmons (Geneva and Paris, 1962), pp. 82-83; Raymond Escholier, Eugène Delacroix (Paris, 1963), pp. 116, 117 (detail ill.); Rene Huyghe, Delacroix, trans. Jonathon Griffin (London, 1963), pl. 348, pp. 471, 490; Lee Johnson, Delacroix (London, 1963), p. 92; George P. Mras, Eugène Delacroix’s Theory of Art (Princeton, 1966), p. 70, fig. 21; John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 72, (ill.) 73, 280; Frank A. Trapp, The Attainment of Delacroix (Baltimore and London, 1970), pp. 216-17, fig. 133; John D. Morse, Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York, 1979), p. 100 (ill.); Per Bjurström, “Delacroix’ Lion Hunt,” in The Grace and Phillip Sanoblom Collection, ed. Ulf Abel (Stockholm, 1981), pp. 24-35; Eve Twose Kliman, “Delacroix’s Lions and Tigers: A Link Between Man and Nature,” Art Bulletin 64, 3 (1982), p. 464, fig. 36; Maurice Sérullaz, Dessins d’Eugene Delacroix, 1798-1863 vol. 2 (Paris, 1984), p. 222 (ill.); Frances Weitzenhoffer, The Havemeyers: Impressionism Comes to America (New York, 1986), p. 88, pl. 32; Lee Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue vol. 3 (Oxford, 1986), no. 205, pl. 30; Richard Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 32 (ill.), 33, 118; Barthélémy Jobert, Delacroix, Paris, Gallimard, 1997, pp. 265-266, ill. 222. Full full bibliography and exhibition see: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/81505 Immunity from Seizure Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) © Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California X8146 Madame Clémentine Valensi Stora (L'Algérienne) 1870 Place of manufacture: France Oil on canvas Object dimensions: 84.5 × 59.7 cm Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Prentis Cobb Hale in honour of Thomas Carr Howe, Jr. 1966.47 Lender's name and address The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco CA USA Provenance: M. and Mme. Stora, Paris; sold in 1893 to Paul Helleu, Paris; Paul Helleu, Paris; with Claude Monet, Giverny, before 1906; with Michel Monet before 1938; Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris; Reid & Lefevre, London by 1952; Mr. and Mrs. Prentis Cobb Hale, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. Prentis Cobb Hale donated the painting to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in 1966; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; donated to the Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco by Mr. and Mrs. Prentis Cobb Hale in Honor of Thomas Carr Howe Jr. in 1966. The provenance for this painting was derived from the publications listed below and its listing on The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco website: http://art.famsf.org/pierre-auguste-renoir/madame-clementine-valensi-stora-lalgerienne-196647 Publication and Exhibition History: Marseille 1906, Paris 1938, London 1952, London 1953, Chicago 1973, London, Paris and Boston 1985-6, Ottawa, Chicago and Fort Worth 1997-1998, G.-P. Dauberville and M. Dauberville 2007. Immunity from Seizure Note that this painting has incomplete provenance information for the years 1933-1945: specifically, it is not known when it was acquired by Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris. There is no active search for the painting on the Art Loss Register and a full certificate has been issued. Immunity from Seizure Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) © The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California X8104 The Eternal Feminine about 1877 Place of manufacture: France Oil on canvas Object dimensions: 43.2 x 50.8 cm The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 87.A.79 Lender's name and address J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles) 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles CA 90049-1687 USA Accession Number 87.PA.79 Provenance: By 1899 - Ambroise Vollard (1867 – 1939); by 1907 – 1929 Auguste Pellerin (1852 - 1929) (Paris, France), by inheritance to Jean-Victor Pellerin, 1929; 1929 – 1955 Jean-Victor Pellerin (Paris, France), sold to Wildenstein & Co., 1955. (Seems to be with Wildenstein by 1947. Lent by Wildenstein to Cezanne at Wildenstein, New York, n.13 and again in 1952, to Cezanne at Chicago Institute of Arts and travelling, n.23.
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