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WILLIAM ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU (FRENCH, 1825-1905)
Le printemps
signed and dated '-W-BOVGVEREAV-1858' (lower left, with the date possibly added after the completion of the entire commission)
oil on canvas
31 1/4 in. x 59 3/4 in. (79.4 cm. x 151.8 cm.)
Provenance
Émile Pereire (1800-1875), Paris, commissioned from the artist, 1857.
with Shepherd Gallery, New York, by 1975.
Harry Glass (d. circa 1993) and Mrs. Harry Glass, Old Westbury, NY, 1976.
His estate sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 1996, lot 129.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
A. T. L., 'La Photographie au salon de 1859,' La Lumière, Paris, 22 January 1859, p. 14.
C. Vendryès, Catalogue illustré des œuvres de W. Bouguereau, Paris, 1885, pp. 14-15, illustrated with the engraving.
M. Vachon, W. Bouguereau, Paris, 1900, pp. 53, 146, as Decorations de l'Hôtel Pereire.
'Adolphe William Bouguereau,' Masters in Art, vol. 7, Boston, October 1906, p. 41, as Four Seasons.
R. Isaacson, William-Adolphe Bouguereau exh. cat., New York, 1974, p. 20, as Paint decorations for the Hôtel Pereire.
H. Kramer, 'New Vogue for Victorian Art,' The New York Times Magazine, New York, 4 February 1979, pp. 20-21, illustrated, as Spring.
M. S. Walker 'Biography,' in William Bouguereau 1825-1905, exh. cat., Montreal, 1984, pp. 50, 62.
M. S. Walker 'A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings,' in William Bouguereau: l’art pompier, exh. cat., New York, 1991, pp. 65, 79.
F. E. Wissman, Bouguereau, San Francisco, 1996, pp. 23-24, pl. 9, illustrated, as Spring.
D. Bartoli and F. Ross, William Bouguereau: His Life and Works, New York, 2010, pp. 132-133, pl. 45, illustrated.
D. Bartoli and F. Ross, William Bouguereau: Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work, New York, 2010, p. 55, no. 1858/02A, illustrated.
D. Jung, William Bouguereau: Le peintre roi de la Belle Époque, Saintes, 2014, p. 342, with incorrect dimensions.
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1857, no. 321.
New York, Shepherd Gallery, Ingres & Delacroix through Degas & Puvis de Chavannes: The Figure in French Art 1800-1870, May-June 1975, pp. 279-280, no. 118, illustrated, as Spring ('Le Printemps,' Decoration for the Hôtel Péreire).
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Second Empire, 1852-1870, Art in France Under Napoleon III, 1 October-26 November 1978; also Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 15 January-18 March 1978; also Paris, Grand Palais, 24 April-2 July 1979, p. 258, no. VI-10, illustrated.