Italian Courtyard

1842

Alexandre Gabriel Decamps French, 1803-1860

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Italian Courtyard

Artwork Date 1842

Artist Alexandre Gabriel Decamps

Life Dates 1803-1860

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 24 × 19 7/8 inches (61 × 50.5 cm) Framed: 32 1/16 × 28 × 3 1/4 inches (81.4 × 71.1 × 8.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Barbara L. Scripps Fund and General Endowment Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 76.27

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Signed Signed and dated, lower left on bench: DECAMPS. | 1842

Provenance

1854, anonymous auction (Paris, France);
Baron Michel de Tretaigne (Paris, France);
John Waterloo Wilson (Paris, France);
William H. Herriman (New York, New York, USA);
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, USA);
March 28, 1951, sold by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA) lot 101 [for $125];
(Solow Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
1976, (Shrickman Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exposition Universelle. Exh. cat. Paris, 1855, no. 2883.

Moreau, A. Decamps et son oeuvre. Paris, 1869, pp. 127, 166, no. 132.

Cercle Artistique. Brussels, 1873, no. 500.

Palais de la présidence du corps législatif. Paris, 1878, no. 110.

Clement, C. Decamps. Paris, 1887, p. 83.

H.B.W. "Accessions and Notes." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 16 (1921): p. 263.

Burroughs, B. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings, vol. 9. New York, 1931, p. 88.

Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 1: Annual Report (1976): p. 12.

"La Chronique des arts principales acquisitions des musées en 1977." Gazette des Beaux Arts, no. 1310 (March 1978): p. 95.

The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1978, pp. 26-27, cat. 6 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, Italian Courtyard, 1842, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Barbara L. Scripps Fund and General Endowment Fund, 76.27.