Updated 01 August 2024
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Little Girl
| Date | 1878 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 45.5 x 38 |
| Inscriptions | Signed upper left: W. BOUGUEREAU; dated upper right: 1878 |
| Standard ref. | Bartoli/Ross 1878/02 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.2008-0004 |
Provenance
Sold by Bouguereau to Goupil, 10 April 1878, as En prière; possibly private collection of Mr. J. Abner Harper; Leavitt Art Galleries, New York, 12-13 March 1880, no. 106, as Childhood's Prayer; Williams & Son Gallery, London; sold to a private collector in Japan; donated to NMWA, 2008.
Exhibition History
- 2012
- [Traveling Exhibitions presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2012] Modern European Art: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum (Okayama), 5 October 2012 - 25 November 2012, 06
Bibliography
- 1885
- Vendryes, Ch. Catalogue illustré des œuvres de Bouguereau. Paris, Librairie d'art, L. Baschet, 1885, p. 56
- 1900
- Vachon, Marius. W. Bouguereau. Paris, A. Lahure, 1900, p. 153
- 1991
- Walker, Mark Steven. William Adolphe Bouguereau. New York, Borghi & Co., [1991], p. 70
- 2010
- Bartoli, Damien; Ross, Frederick. William Bouguereau. Woodbridge, vol. [2] Catalogue raisonné of his painted work, c2010, cat. no. 1878/02 (titled The Prayer), pp. 179-180, repr
- 2010
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 43(Apr. 2008-Mar. 2009), 2010, List of New Acquisitions. p. 45.
- 2013
- Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 99, col. repr.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 111, 182, cat. no. Y3_2 | T3_2, col. repr.