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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

Samuel Hawk (1820–1882), Kingston, New York, by 1879;
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

None.

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.).