Provenance

Sold by Bouguereau to Goupil, 6 December 1875, 6,000F, stockbook no. 10744; sold to branch in The Hague, 19 May 1877, 13, 177F; private collection of Mrs. Horace Rinearson, Pennsylvania; private collection, Texas; Newhouse Galleries Ltd, New York; Joan Michelman Ltd, New York; private collection Fred and Sherry Ross, New Jersey, USA, 1979; private collection, Japan; deposited to NMWA, since 22 September 2022.

Exhibition History

1984

William Bouguereau 1825-1905, Musée du Petit Palais, 9 February 1984 - 6 May 1984, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 22 June-23 September 1984; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 27 October 1984-13 January 1985, pp. 194-196, cat. no. 66

2023

Another 19th Century: Bouguereau, Millais, and the Academic Painters, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 19 September 2023 - 12 February 2024, cat. no. 21

Bibliography

1885

Vendryes, Charles. William Bouguereau. Paris, Baschet, 1885, p. 53

1895

Franquet, Charles, Comte de Franqueville. Le premier siècle de l'Institut de France, 25 oct. 1795-25 oct. 1895. Paris, J. Rothschild, 1895, p. 370

1900

Vachon, Marius. W. Bouguereau. Paris, Lahure, 1900, p. 152

1984

William Bouguereau 1825-1905 (exh.cat.). Musée du Petit Palais et al. Paris, Musée du Petit-Palais, [1984], pp. 194-196, cat. no. 66, repr.

1991

Walker, Mark Steven. William-Adolphe Bouguereau, A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings. William Adolph Bouguereau: l'art pompier. New York, Borghi & Co., 1991, p. 70

2010

Bartoli, Damien; Ross, Frederick. William Bouguereau. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors’ Club in cooperation with the Art Renewal Center, 2010, p. 168, cat. nos. 1875/17

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