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Currently not on display

William Adolphe Bouguereau

La Rochelle, 1825 - La Rochelle, 1905

Innocence

Date 1893
Materials and Techniques Oil on canvas
Size(cm) 178 x 94
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower left: W BOUGUEREAU 1893
Credit Line Deposited by Iuchi Collection
Standard ref. Bartoli/Ross 1893/08
Category Paintings
Collection Number DEP.2022-0021

Provenance

Sold by Bouguereau to Tooth & Sons, 1 June 1897, no. 829; collection of W. Marburg, Baltimore, Maryland; private collection, Baltimore; sold at Parke-Bernet, New York, 26 October 1955, lot no. 75; private collection; sold at Christie's, London, 20 November 1959, lot no. 89; private collection, USA; private collection, Japan; deposited to NMWA, since 22 September 2022.

Exhibition History

1894
Salon of 1894, 0  1894 - 0  0, cat. no. 247
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. 8

Bibliography

0
Braun & Clèment. Oeuvres Choisies des Maitres Anciens & Modernes. [n.p.], [n.d.], p. 6, cat. no. 4359, repr.
1894
Catalogue of Paris Salon of 1894. Paris, Dupont, 1894, cat. no. 247
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. 158
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. 74
2010
Bartoli, Damien; Ross, Frederick. William Bouguereau. Woodbridge, Antique Collectors’ Club in cooperation with the Art Renewal Center, 2010, p. 286, cat. no. 1893/08, col. repr.

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