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William Bouguereau

Study for La tasse de lait

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

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William Bouguereau

La Rochelle 1825 - 1905

Study for La tasse de lait 


signed and dated lower left: W-BOUGUEREAU-1879

oil on canvas

canvas: 14 ½ by 11 ⅝ in.; 29.2 by 29.5 cm

framed: 24 ¾ by 21 ⅝ in.; 62.9 by 54.9 cm

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 18 May 1965, lot 11;

Private collection, Connecticut;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie’s, 25 October 2006, lot 126;

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

C. Vendryès, Dictionnaire illustré des Beaux-Arts: Bouguereau, Paris 1885, p. 59;

M. Vachon, W. Bouguereau, Paris 1900, p. 153;

M.S Walker, "A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings," in William Adolphe Bouguereau: l'Art Pompier, New York 1991, p. 71;

D. Bartoli and F. C. Ross, William Bouguereau, Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work, New York 2010, pp. 188-189, cat. no. 1879/04, reproduced.