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1827 · Art Institute of Chicago

The Captive Slave

John SimpsonWikidata

painting by John Philip Simpson

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Date
1827Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: 1827
Medium
Oil on canvasArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
127 × 101.5 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: 128.2 × 102 cm
Collection
Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoWikidata
Gallery
Gallery 220Art Institute of Chicago
Materials
oil paint, canvasWikidata
Inventory no.
2008.188Wikidata
Credit line
Purchased with funds provided by Mary Winton Green, Dan and Sara Green Cohan, Howard and Lisa Green and Jonathan and Brenda Green, in memory of David GreenArt Institute of Chicago
Exhibitions
  • Le Modèle noir de Géricault à Matisse
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  1. Dates unknown
    Art Institute of Chicago
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Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1827, no. 283. London, British Institution, 1828, no. 136. Liverpool, Liverpool Academy, 1828, no. 95. Winter Park, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, The Black Figure in the European Imaginary, Jan. 20 - Mar. 15, 2017. New York, Wallach Art Gallery, Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet to Matisse, Oct. 24, 2018-Feb. 10, 2019; Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Le Modéle Noir [The Black Model], Mar. 25 - July 14 2019, cat. 99; Guadeloupe, Mémorial ACTe, Sep. 13-Dec. 29, 2019 [Paris only]. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Afro-Atlantic Histories, Oct. 24, 2021-Jan. 17, 2022, cat. 26; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Apr. 10-July 17, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov. 1, 2022-Apr. 30, 2023; Dallas Museum of Art, Oct. 2023-Jan. 2024. [Houston and Washington only].
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