LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.46 in. (59.60 cm.) (height) by 17.99 in. (45.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed W-BOUGUEREAU and dated 1875 (lower left)

Literature:

The artist's accounts (as Tête orientale); Charles Vendryès, Dictionnaire illustré des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1885, p. 53; Franqueville, William Bouguereau, n.p., n.d., p. 370; Marius Vachon, W. Bouguereau, Paris, 1900, p. 152; Arnold Lewis, James Turner and Steven McQuillin, The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age, all 203 Photographs from "Artistic Houses," New York, 1987, p. 106, illustrated p. 107 (as hanging in the picture gallery of Samuel M. Nickerson in the reproduced photograph from D. Appleton and Company, Artistic Houses, New York, 1883-4, vol. II, pl. 49); James Thompson, The East, Imagined, Experienced, Remembered, Orientalist Nineteenth Century Painting, exh. cat., National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1988, p. 48 ; Mark Steven Walker, "William-Adolphe Bouguereau, A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings," William-Adolphe Bouguereau, L'Art Pompier, exh. cat., Borghi & Co., New York, 1991, p. 70; Damien Bartoli with Fred Ross, William Bouguereau, Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work, New York, 2010, p. 168, no. 1875/15, illustrated p. 169

Provenance:

Goupil, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on November 24, 1875, no. 10718, as La grenade; sold to an unknown client on September 21, 1876); Samuel M. Nickerson, Chicago (by 1883 and until 1900); The Art Institute of Chicago (gifted from the above in 1900, accession no. 1900.563, and until 1917); Vose Galleries of Boston, Maine (in 1920, no. 4395); McKay (in May 1922 and sold to an unknown client); Private Collection (possibly acquired in circa 1925-30); Thence by descent to the present owner