The Musicians (Music in an Antechamber)

1866

Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	12 13/16 x 9 1/2 in. (32.5 x 24.1 cm) Frame: 17 3/8 x 14 x 1 1/4 in. (44.1 x 35.6 x 3.2 cm)
Object Number	1955.901
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, The Musicians (Music in an Antechamber), 1866, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.901

Select Bibliography

Reyero, Carlos, et al. Zamacois, Fortuny, Meissonier. Exhibition catalogue. Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2006. Taft Museum, Cincinnati.. Cavaliers and Cardinals: 19th-Century French Anecdotal Painting. June 25-Aug. 16, 1992; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. C. Sept. 19-Nov. 15, 1992; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, N.Y., Nov. 21, 1992-Jan. 17, 1993. Cat. by Eric M. Zafran. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Roglán, Mark. Prelude to Spanish Modernism: Fortuny to Picasso. The Albuquerque Museum, August 21- November 27, 2005 ; Meadows Museum, December 11, 2005- February 26, 2006. The Albuquerque Museum. 2005. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

The artist, sold to Goupil, 15 Nov. 1866, as Les Musiciens; [Goupil, Paris, 1866–67, sold to Knoedler, 25 Feb. 1867];¹ [Knoedler, New York, sold to Kennard, 1867]; T. W. Kennard, New York (from 1867); [Knoedler, New York, 1870];² H. N. Smith; Darius Ogden Mills, New York and Sacramento (by 1879–d. 1910); private collection, New York (sale, American Art Association, New York, 15 Feb. 1934, no. 7, as The Flute Player, sold to Knoedler, as agent for Clark); [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 28 Feb. 1934, as The Flute Player]; Robert Sterling Clark (1934–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. Goupil Stock Books, book 3, p. 106, no. 2470. The number “2470” is written on the reverse of the panel in pencil. 2. In Zamacois, Fortuny, Meissonier, Bilbao 2006–7, p. 124, the work is listed as being purchased by Kennard in January 1867 for $360, although this seems to conflict with the sale date to Knoedler in February 1867. It is also listed as being with Knoedler, New York, in 1870. No documentation for these facts is given.