Hour of Return
Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829–1890)
Title
Hour of Return
Artist
Auguste Toulmouche (French, 1829–1890)
Date
1870
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
23 3/4 × 16 1/4 in. (60.3 × 41.3 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Bequest of Francis T. B. Martin
Object Number
1995.43
On View
On view
Provenance
Purchased at his estate sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 4, 1931, through J. Laurie Wallace, by Charles W. Martin (1863–1944), Omaha, 1931– November 27, 1940;
His gift to his nephew, Francis T. B. Martin (1904–1995), Omaha, November 27, 1940–December 1, 1989;
His gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1989.
Exhibition History
Published References
Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Skteches, vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, & Co., 1879), 301, as Waiting from the collection of Mr. S. Hawk of New York.
John Denison Champlin, Jr. and Charles C. Perkins, eds., Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, vol. 4 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887), 290.
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020),174–75, (repro.).