Chartres Cathedral

Modern Art

1930

Elie Lascaux
French, 1888-1968

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Elie Lascaux
Title: Chartres Cathedral
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1930
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: "LASCAUX"
Dimensions: 81.5 × 100 cm (32 1/8 × 39 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Reference Number: 1954.1358

Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1936), n.p. (cat. 26), as Chartres.
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), p. 255, as Chartres Cathedral, 1930.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 50 (no. 2D7), as Chartres Cathedral, 1930.

Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, Dec. 9–31, 1936, cat. 26, as Chartres.

Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., Chicago and Burlington, VT, by Oct. 2, 1936 [letter from Joseph Winterbotham to Alice Roullier, Oct. 2, 1936, Winterbotham-Shaw Family papers; copy in curatorial file]; by descent to the Estate of Joseph Winterbotham, Jr.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.

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