On the Road

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1856

Jules Dupré
French, 1811-1889

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jules Dupré
Title: On the Road
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1856
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed, l.l.: Jules Dupré 1856
Dimensions: 39.4 × 50.8 cm (15 1/2 × 20 in.)
Credit Line: Henry Field Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1894.1057
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San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Barbizon Revisited, September 27–November 4, 1962, cat. 49; traveled to Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, November 20–December 27, 1962; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, January 15–February 24, 1963; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, March 14–April 28, 1963.

Henry Field (died 1890), Chicago; his widow, Mrs. Florence Lathrop Field; given to the Art Institute, 1894.

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