A Cuirassier
Thomas Couture (French, 1815–1879)

M. Perret, Paris, by 1880 [1];
Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810–1892), Paris, by 1892;
Purchased at his posthumous sale, Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 2–3, 1892, lot 54, by Galerie Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris.
John Wanamaker (1838–1922), Philadelphia, by 1922.
With Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, New York, by 1941;
Purchased from Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, June 30, 1948 [2].

[1] This owner lent the work to L'exposition des oeuvres de Thomas Couture, Palais de l’Industrie, Paris, 1880, no. 88.
[2] Funds for this purchase were provided by Mr. Gould Cooke Dietz (1868–1948), Omaha, who specified the credit, “Gift of C. N. Dietz.” Joslyn Art Museum object file.

L'exposition des oeuvres de Thomas Couture, Palais de l’Industrie, Paris, 1880, no. 88, lent by M. Perret.

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, December 1941–January 1942.

Men in Arms, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, February 2–March 4, 1943.

Exhibition of Paintings from the 15th Century to the 20th Century, Gumps Galleries, San Francisco, July 1944, no. 44.

Notable Collections at Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 1, 1957.

Old Masters, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, October 12–November 20, 1960.

French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, March 5–April 16, 1961.

Masterpieces in the Midwest, Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, May 4–June 4, 1961, no. 19.

Thomas Couture: Paintings and Drawings in American Collections, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, February 5–March 15, 1970, no. 48.

A Magic Mirror: The Portrait in France, 1700–1900, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 12, 1986–January 25, 1987, no. 27.

Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 19, 1999–January 30, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–May 7, 2000; Cleveland Museum of Art, May 28–July 30, 2000; no. 19.

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

Roger Ballu, Catalogue des oeuvres de Th. Couture exposés au Palais de l'industrie: précédé d'un essai sur l'artiste, exh. cat. (Paris: A. Quantin & Cie., 1880), 18, no. 88.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Men in Arms, exh. cat. (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1943).

French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: UCLA New Wight Gallery, 1961), 37, (repro.).

Masterpieces in the Midwest, exh. cat. (Flint: Flint Institute of Arts, 1961), no. 19, (repro.).

Philip Gurney, “Security Spelled Death to Couture’s Talent,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, January 26, 1961, 48, (repro.).

Jane van Nimmen, Thomas Couture: Paintings and Drawings in American Collections, exh. cat. (College Park: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1970), 62, (repro.).

Marcel E. Landgren, Antiques Magazine (June 1971): 881, (repro.).

Albert Boime, Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980), 282–83, (repro.).

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 80, 81, 82, (repro.).

George T. M. Shackelford and Mary Tavener Holmes, A Magic Mirror: The Portrait in France, 1700–1900, exh. cat. (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houstone, 1986), 95, (repro.).

Sona Johnston, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1999), 76–77, (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 24, 136–37, (repro.).