About the Artwork
Drummer Boy
1857
Thomas Couture
1815-1879
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 57 3/4 × 45 inches (146.7 × 114.3 cm) Framed: 69 3/4 × 56 1/4 × 4 1/2 inches (177.2 × 142.9 × 11.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
76.23
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Markings
Signed and dated, center right: T. C. | 1857
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Provenance
1857, J.V. (Paris, France)
April 24, 1857, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) auction M.V.J. [van Isacker or Isaac] lot 5 [as L'enfant au tambour
for 5825 francs]
1880, private collection (Paris, France)
1880s, private collection (posibly USA)
by 1967, until 1976, (Ira Spanierman, Inc., New York, New York, USA)
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lurine, L. Catalogue des tableaux modernes composant le cabinet de M.J.V. Paris, 1857, pp. 12-13.
Ballu, Roger. Catalogue des oeuvres de Thomas Couture exposées au Palais de l'Industrie. Paris, 1880, p. 11, no. 55. [as Jeune Tambour, vue de profil; cited as a study for Volunteers.]
"Advertisement for John Nicholson Gallery." Connoisseur Magazine, February 1957, n.p.
Grigaut, P.L. "A Thomas Couture Portrait." University of Michigan Museum of Art Bulletin 2 (1966-1967): p. 24.
Van Nimmen, J. Thomas Couture: Paintings and Drawings in American Collections. Exh. cat., University of Maryland Art Gallery. College Park, 1970, p. 57, cat. 23 (ill.). [lent by Ira Spanierman.]
Boime, A. "A la Mode and Haute Couture," Burlington Magazine, vol. 112, no. 810, 1976, pp. 645-651; p. 646 (fig. 133).
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 55, no. 1 (1976): pp. 12, 14 (fig. 9).
Boime, A. "Thomas Couture's Drummer Boy Beating a Path to Glory," Bulletin of the DIA 56 (1978): (fig. 1), pp. 109-131.
The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts, et al. Flint, 1978, pp. 40-41, cat. 13 (ill.).
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Thomas Couture, Drummer Boy, 1857, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 76.23.
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