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Mariano Fortuny (Spanish, 1838-1874) (Artist)
1869
watercolors with selectively applied glaze over traces of charcoal on paper
(18th and 19th Centuries )

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[Signature] Lower right Fortuny R. 1869

Provenance
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Possibly Goupil et Cie., Paris, 1869-72; sold to benefit the victims of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Art Rooms, New York, May, 1872. Purchased by Robert L. Cutting, New York, by 1875 until 1892; purchased by Samuel Avery, New York, in the sale of March 22, 1892; purchased by Henry Walters, New York, by 1900, although possibly aquired from Avery after 1892; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.

Exhibitions

2017-2018 Mariano Fortuny (1838 – 1874). Museo del Prado.
1983 A Connoisseur's Portfolio: Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors in the Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
1979 A Supple Brush: The Flowering of Continental Watercolors. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
11/25/2015 Loan Consideration examined for loan
2/3/2017 Examination examined for loan; examined for technical study
8/27/2017 Treatment installed in climate package; re-framed; stabilized; surface cleaned; tears repaired
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Measurements

Primary support, H: 16 × W: 19 11/16 in. (40.6 × 50 cm); Secondary support, H: 16 × W: 19 13/16 in. (40.6 × 50.4 cm); Framed H: 29 1/2 × W: 33 × D: 3 1/4 in. (74.93 × 83.82 × 8.26 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters 1892

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

37.970

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