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Currently not on display

Adolphe Pierre Leleux

Paris, 1812 - Paris, 1891

Children Leading the Geese

Date 1855
Materials and Techniques Oil on canvas
Size(cm) 99.4 x 74.3
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower center: Adolphe Leleux 1855
Credit Line Donated by Mr. Daisuke Kubota
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2020-0001

Provenance

Sale, Sotheby’s New York, 17 October 1991, lot 196; sale, Shinwa Auction, Tokyo, Modern Art Part II, 20 July 2019, lot 683; Mr. Daisuke Kubota, acquired at the above sale; donated by Mr. Daisuke Kubota to NMWA, 2020.

Exhibition History

1855
Salon de 1855, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 0  1855 - 0  1855, no. 3568

Bibliography

1855
Gautier, Théophile. Les beaux-arts en Europe. 2nde série, Paris, 1855, pp. 62-63.
2022
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 55 (Apr. 2020-Mar. 2021), 2022, List of New Acquisitions. p. 18.

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