Currently not on view
Le Carnage,
1890
Georges Clairin, French, 1843–1919
y1993-40
Information
Title
Le Carnage
Dates
1890
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
110.2 x 150.2 cm (43 3/8 x 59 1/8 in.)
frame: 134 × 174 × 8 cm (52 3/4 × 68 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Forbes Magazine Collection: Malcolm S. Forbes, Class of 1941, Malcolm S. Forbes Jr., Class of 1970, and Christopher Forbes, Class of 1972
Object Number
y1993-40
Signatures
signed lower left: G. Clairin
Culture
Type
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s New York, May 28, 1981, lot 121; Forbes Magazine Collection (until 1993; sale, Christie’s New York, October 14, 1993, bought in; gift to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Georges Marbek and Bob Benamou, Les perfectionnistes, 1843-1917: peintres du réel et de l'imaginaire: [exposition], 27 novembre 1974-27 janvier 1975, Galerie Tanagra, Paris, (Paris: La Galerie, 1974)., p. 8, no. 2 (Illus.)
- Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1981. Important 19th century European paintings: part 1, sale code po. 25 November 1981, London., no. 27
- The Forbes Magazine Collection of Orientalist paintings, drawings, watercolors and sculpture, (New York: Christie, Manson et Woods, 1993).
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1993", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 1 (1994): p. 46-95., p. 55 (illus.)
- Peter Turchin, Historical dynamics: why states rise and fall (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).,
