William Bouguereau
Jeune fille portant une cruche (Young Girl Carrying a Water Pitcher)
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Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Bid
350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
William Bouguereau
French 1825 - 1905
Jeune fille portant une cruche (Young Girl Carrying a Water Pitcher)
signed and dated lower right: W BOUGUEREAU - 1885
oil on canvas
canvas: 62 by 34 in.; 157.5 by 86.4 cm
framed: 80 by 52 in.; 203.2 by 132.1 cm
Executed in 1885.
With Goupil et Cie., Paris, (acquired directly from the artist on 1 December 1885)
William Schaus, New York (acquired from the above on 13 January 1886)
Sir Joseph Duveen, London
John S. Pillsbury, Sr., Minneapolis
Minneapolis Public Library (donated by the above in the 1950s)
With Bead Art Gallery (acquired from the above in 1977)
Dr. Gregory Hedberg, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s, New York, 28 May 1992, lot 70 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Borghi & Co., William Adolphe Bouguereau, L’Art Pompier, 1991-1992 (lent by Gregory Hedberg)
Marius Vachon, William Bouguereau, Paris 1900, p. 156
William Adolphe Bouguereau, L’Art Pompier, exh. cat., New York 1991, pp. 46-47, illustrated
Mark Steven Walker, "William Bouguereau: A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings," in William Adolphe Bouguereau, L’Art Pompier, exh. cat., New York 1991, p. 72
Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William Bouguereau, Catalogue Raisonné of His Painted Work, New York 2010, p. 234, no. 1885/09, illustrated
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