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William Adolphe Bouguereau · 1884

Provenance

Ownership history

Sold by the artist to Goupil & Cie, Paris, October 17, 1884 [according to Goupil & Cie stock book no. 17185, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]; sold to Charles F. Haseltine, Philadelphia, August 4, 1885 for 36,000 francs [according to the stock book referenced above]; his sale, New York, 1886, for 100,450 francs [according to Mireur 1911]. Albert A. Munger (died 1898), Chicago, by 1894 [lent to the Art Institute, 1894]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1901.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Exhibited at London, French Gallery, 1884–85.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Spirit of Modern France 1745–1946, November–December 1946, cat. 40; traveled to Toronto Art Gallery, January–February 1947.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Gay Nineties Exhibition, Fall 1950.
Miami Art Center, The Artist and the Sea, March 21–April 18, 1969, cat. 6.
Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, William Bouguereau 1825–1905, February 9–May 6, 1984, cat. 112; traveled to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 22–September 23, 1984; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, October 27, 1984–January 13, 1985.

Literature

Published references

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 62, no. 124.
Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth Annual Report of the Trustees (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1899), p. 11.
Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago: VII. The Munger Collection,” Brush and Pencil 3, 1 (1898), pp. 2, 5–6, 8 (ill.).
Marius Vachon, William Bouguereau (Paris: Lahure, 1900), p. 155.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), p. 172, no. 186, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 178, no. 186, ill.
“Adolph William Bouguereau,” Sketch Book 5 (1905), ill. opposite p. 30.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 191, no. 186, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 177, no. 186, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Collections Illustrated, with a Historical Sketch and Description of the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 23, ill.
H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d’art faites en France et à l’Etranger prendant les XVIIIme & XIXme siècles, vol. 1 (Paris: 1911), p. 415.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 120, no. 186, ill.

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