The Cock Fight
Ferdinand Roybet (French, 1840–1920)

John Taylor Johnston (1820–1893), New York, before 1887 [1].
Darius Ogden Mills (1825–1910), Millbrae, California, by 1887–1910;
By descent to Ogden L. Mills (1884–1937), New York, 1910–1937;
Purchased at his estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, no. 421, through J. Laurie Wallace, to Charles W. Martin (1863–1944), Omaha, April 2, 1938;
His gift to his nephew, Francis T. B. Martin, Omaha, Nebraska, January 1, 1939–1990;
Bequest of Francis T. B. Martin to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1990.

[1] Undated provenance summary sheet, Joslyn Art Museum, Object File.

An Eye For Detail: French Academic Paintings from the Martin Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, February 24–April 8, 1990.

Worth a Thousand Words: 19th-Century Academic Paintings, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, January 20–March 20, 1995.

John Denison Champlin and Charles C. Perkins, Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887), 81.

Clarence Cook, Art and Artists of Our Time (New York: Selmar Hess, 1888), 164.

Property of the Estate of the Late Ogden Mills (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1938), 92, no. 421, (repro.).

An Eye For Detail: French Academic Paintings from the Martin Collection (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1990), 1, (repro.)

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 166–67, (repro.).