LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
75.98 in. (193.00 cm.) (height) by 51.50 in. (130.80 cm.) (width)
Description:
Markings:
signed PAJ-DAGNAN-B, dated 1888, and inscribed Ormoy (lower left)
Exhibited:
Paris,. Salon ,. 1889, no. 680. London, William Clowes and Sons, Ltd., . Exhibition of Modern Works in Painting and Sculpture forming the Collection of the late George McCulloch, Esq., January-March, 1909, no. 60.
Literature:
"The Century's Christmas Pictures,". Century Magazine, vol. 43, no. 2, December, 1891, p. 282-3, illustrated. Catalogue des oeuvres de M. Dagnan-Bouveret (peintures), Paris, 1930, p. 24, illustrated. Gabriel P. Weisberg, DeCourcy E. McIntosh and Alison McQueen,. Collecting in the Gilded Age, Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890-1910 , exh. cat., Pittsburgh, Frick Art & Historical Center, 1997, p. 265-6, illustrated fig. 107. Gabriel. P. Weisberg, . Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition, exh. cat., Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, 2002, pp. 97-9, 106, fig. 107, illustrated
Provenance:
Possibly, Ramón Subercaseaux (acquired directly from the artist). Arthur Tooth & Sons, London. George McCulloch, Esq. (and sold, Christie's, London, May 23, 1913, lot 21, illustrated with an engraving by Mignon). Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired at the above sale). William Randolph Hearst, Los Angeles and New York (acquired from the above, July 1913, and until at least 1941).
