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• Provenance
  Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris. His sale, Paris, Durand-Ruel, 2-3 June 1892 (lot 25), Tête de volontaire, 1793 [sic]. Bought by Daniel Cottier, Paris. His sale, 1892, Tête de soldat, ff 550 (according to Hippolyte Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France . . . [Paris, 1911-12]) (bought in?), with Cottier in 1904. Bought from P. A. B. Widener in May 1908 by Knoedler & Co, New York. Sold on 30 November 1908 to M. de Lagotellerie, 20 Rue de l'Université, Paris (according to Knoedler stock book no. 5: 11591). James S. Inglis, New York. His collection sale, American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1909 (lot 91), A member of the guard. Fischer Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1910), sold to James Parmelee, Washington, D.C. Given to the CMA in 1940.
• Citations
  Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 168-172, Vol. I, no. 64
• Exhibition History
  The Cleveland Museum of Art (5/28/00 - 7/30/00); "Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections", not in exh. cat.

  Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 28-July 30, 2000).

  Enrollment of the Volunteers: Thomas Couture and the Painting of History. Springfield Museums - Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA (organizer) (April 13-June 8, 1980); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (July 1-August 30, 1980); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (September 20-November 2, 1980).

  Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).

  cma. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism (1980), 75-76, no. 94 (repr.).

  Springfield, Mass., Museum of Fine Arts; Detroit Institute of Arts; Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Enrollment of the Volunteers: Thomas Couture and the Painting of History (1980), 32 (repr.).

  Possibly Paris, Palais de l'Industrie. Oeuvres de Thomas Couture (1880), 4, no. 51.

  Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).

  19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).

  French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).

  The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

  Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute. Loan Exhibition of Paintings (1902), no. 29, Head of a French Grenadier, loaned by Messrs. Cottier and Company.
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