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

2021

National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y3_2 | T3_2

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. 22

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

Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 43(Apr. 2008-Mar. 2009), 2010, List of New Acquisitions. p. 45.

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

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.

Page top