Safe Money, 1898 or later

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 65

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.84 × 63.5 cm (30 1/4 × 25 in.)

framed: 85.73 × 73.03 × 5.72 cm (33 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift from the heirs of George E. Lemon)

Accession Number

2015.19.167

Artists / Makers

Victor Dubreuil (painter) American, born France, 1842 - after 1910

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: V Dubreuil; lower center, painted over: 1898

Provenance

Lawrence A. and Barbara G. Fleischman, Detroit; purchased 1966 by (Kennedy Galleries, New York);[1] purchased 4 June 1980 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Mr. Fleischman became an owner of Kennedy Galleries at this time, and much of his personal collection was sold to the gallery; see Milton Esterow, "A Top Art Buyer Turns to Selling at Gallery Here," The New York Times (21 June 1966): 39, and e-mail of 14 October 2004 from Lillian Brenwasser of Kennedy Galleries to Emily Shapiro of the Corcoran, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Fleischman, Lawrence A.
Kennedy Galleries

Exhibition History

1970: The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; University Art Museum, Berkeley; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1970, no. 96, repro., as The Safe.

1979: Selected American Masterworks: John Singleton Copley to Jack Levine, 1770-1979, Kennedy Galleries, New York, 4 December 1979 - 5 January 1980, no.11, repro., as Safe Money (The Safe).

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 5 November 1982 - 16 January 1983, unpublished checklist.

1988: Old Money: Trompe L'Oeil Images of Currency, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 11 November - 17 December 1988, no. 25, repro.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 294, repro.

2012: Evans, Lorinda. "Toward Understanding Victor Dubreuil." American Art 26, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 75-77, 84 n. 21, fig. 8.