Chevy

1868

Edwin Henry Landseer English, 1802-1873

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Title Chevy

Artwork Date 1868

Artist Edwin Henry Landseer

Life Dates 1802-1873

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. English

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

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 54 1/2 × 83 inches (138.4 × 210.8 cm) Framed: 65 1/2 × 93 5/8 × 3 1/4 inches (166.4 × 237.8 × 8.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. 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. 76.4

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Provenance

Richard Hemming (London, England)

April 28, 1894, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 77. May 25, 1895, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 62

1895, purchased by (Thomas Agnew and Co., London, England)

Sir Joseph Robinson (London, England)

July 6, 1923, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 115

1923, purchased by J.B. Robinson

by descent to his daughter, Princess Labia

November 20, 1963 sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Joseph Robinson, lot 107

July 26, 1974, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 277. July 25, 1975, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 12

1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1868, no. 347.

Atheneum, no. 2188 (May 30, 1868) p. 768.

Art Journal (1868): p. 109.

Illustrated London News 52, May 9, 1868, p. 462.

Saturday Review 25, May 23, 1868, p. 685.

Spectator, May 30, p. 647.

London Times, May 2, 1868, p. 11.

Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1958, no. 69.

Exh. cat., National Gallery of Johannesburg. Johannesburg, 1959, no. 92.

Gazette des Beaux Arts, Supplement 1310 (March 1976): p. 95.

Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 55, no. 1 (1976): pp. 3 (fig. 1), 4, 12.

Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, pp. 70, 87, no. 57 (ill.).

Ormond, R. The Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Scotland. Edinburgh, 2005, p.126, (ill.) p. 124 (fig. 141).

Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today. Exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Musem of Fine Arts. Greenwich, CT and Houston, 2006, pp. 64, 66, 147 (fig. 52).

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