FreeMoroccans Examining Arms
José Villegas y Cordero (Spanish, 1844–1921)
Title
Moroccans Examining Arms
Artist
José Villegas Cordero (Spanish, 1844–1921)
Date
1871
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
13 11/16 × 10 1/2 in. (34.8 × 26.7 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Bequest of Francis T. B. Martin
Object Number
1995.47
On View
On view
Henry Clay Pierce (1849–1927), New York and St. Louis, by 1927;
Purchased at his estate sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 11, 1928, through J. Laurie Wallace, by Charles W. Martin (1863–1944), Omaha, 1928– January 1, 1939;
His gift to his nephew, Francis T. B. Martin (1904–1995), Omaha, January 1, 1939–December 1, 1989;
Gift of Francis T. B. Martin to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1989.
La Illustración Española y Americana, November 30, 1880, 215, 329, (repro.).
Homenaje a Villegas, (Madrird: De Blass, 1919), pl. 7, as Marroquies examnenado armas.
Scribner’s Magazine 78, no. 1, July 1925, 110, (repro.) as A Moorish Scene.
American Art Annual, vol. 25 (Washington: American Federation of Arts, 1928), 503.
Mark Roglán and Javier Barón, Prelude to Spanish Modernism: Fortuny to Picasso, exh. cat. (Albuquerque, NM: Albuquerque Museum, 2005), 112–13, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 176–77, (repro.).
Scott A. Eastman, A Missionary Nation: Race, Religion, and Spain’s Age of Liberal Imperialism, 1841–1881 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021), 171.