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Raffaello Bartoletti

Bacchante

Lot Closed

May 20, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Raffaello Bartoletti

Italian

1852 - 1927

Bacchante



signed and dated Profesi R. Bartoletti/ P. Bazzanti's Gallery, Florence/ 1900

marble

marble: 71 ½ in.; 181.6cm.

marble pedestal: 24 ¼ in.; 62.2cm.

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (acquired directly from the artist, December 1894, as Automne)

David Whitney, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan

William Lucking, Detroit, Michigan

Private Collection, Detroit, Michigan (by descent from the above)

Sale: DuMouchelle Art Gallery, Detroit, date unknown

Dr. and Mrs. Edward S. Smyd, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan (acquired at the above sale)

The Detroit Institute of Arts (donated from the above in 1977 and sold, Sotheby's, New York, November 3, 1999, lot 50, illustrated)

Private Collection, United States

Sale: Sotheby's New York, 1 February 2019, lot 428

Marius Vachon, W. Bouguereau, Paris, 1900, p. 158

"Annual Report," Bulletin of the DIA, Detroit, 1977-78, vol. 56, no. 5, p. 277, illustrated fig. 12

Mark Steven Walker, "William-Adolphe Bouguereau: A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings," William-Adolphe Bouguereau, L'Art Pompier, exh. cat., Borghi & Co., New York, 1991, p. 74

Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William BouguereauCatalogue Raisonné of his Painted Works, New York, 2010, p. 294, no. 1894/13, illustrated p. 295; and in the revised 2014 edition, p. 294, no. 1894/13, illustrated p. 295

Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts; Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Museum; Midland, Michigan, Midland Center for the Arts; Muskegon, Michigan, Hackley Art Museum, The Figure in 19th Century French Paintings: A Loan Exhibition from the Detroit Institute of Arts, December 22, 1978-April 30, 1979, no. 17