Woman from Brittany by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
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Woman from Brittany

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret · 1886

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Jules Roederer (died 1888), Le Havre, France; sold his sale Galerie George Petit, Paris, 5 June 1891, lot 7 for 5,500 francs as Bretonne [price according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, October 1891 [according to an inventory of the Palmer collection dated December 1921, Archives, Art Institute]; his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918); by descent to their sons Honoré and Potter Palmer; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Dagnan-Bouveret, March 1–24, 1901, cat. 11.
  • Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, May 10–August, 1910, cat. 15.
  • New York, Dahesh Museum of Art at the National Academy Museum, Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of Academic Art, September 10–December 7, 2002, no cat. no; traveled to Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, January 3–February 9, 2003.

Literature

Published references

  • “Exhibitions,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 15 (1921), p. 156 (ill.).
  • Catalogue des oeuvres de M. Dagnan-Bouveret, exh. cat (Paris: Galerie Maurice Rousseau, 1930), p. 24.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 112.
  • Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 108, 111 (ill.).
  • Gretchen Wold, “Some notes on The Pardon in Brittany by Dagnan-Bouveret,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 35 (2000), pp. 241–43, fig. 5, p. 245 n. 14, n. 18.
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg, Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition, exh. cat. (New York: Dahesh Museum of Art, 2002), pp. 82–83, 121, 129, fig. 85.
  • M. Therese Southgate, “The Cover,” Journal of the American Medical Association 287, 18 (2002), p. 2327 (ill.).

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