LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

45.51 in. (115.60 cm.) (height) by 35.00 in. (88.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'W. BOUGUEREAU 1875' (upper right)

Exhibited:

Buffalo, Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Paintings Owned by Citizens of Buffalo, 10-24 October 1907.

Literature:

M. Vachon, W. Bouguereau, Paris, 1900, p. 152. M. S. Walker, William-Adolphe Bouguereau L'Art Pompier: A Summary of the Paintings, New York, 1991, p. 70. J. Thompson, The East Imagined, Experienced, Remembered, Orientalist Nineteenth Century Painting, exh. cat., Dublin & Liverpool, 1988,. p. 48. D. Bartoli and F. Ross, William Bouguereau: Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work, New York, 2010, pp. 168-169, no. 1875/16, illustrated.

Provenance:

The artist. with Goupil, Paris, acquired directly from the above, 6 December 1875. with Samuel Avery, New York, July 1876. (possibly) William III, King of Holland for his palace, Het Loo. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Goodyear, Buffalo, New York. with Tony Sisti, Buffalo, New York. Dr. and Mrs. Casimir G. Jenczeski, Amherst, New York, acquired from the above. Private collection, New York. with Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York. Private collection, New York.