LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

55.87 in. (141.90 cm.) (height) by 41.50 in. (105.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed ALF. AGACHE and dated 1891 (upper right)

Exhibited:

Paris,. Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1891, no. 1. Possibly Jahresausstellung, Munich, 1891, no. 3188 (according to a label on the reverse). Chicago,. World's Columbian Exposition , 1893, no. 264. Lille, Union Artistique du Nord, . Exposition des Beaux-Arts . , March-May 1896. Paris,. Exposition Universelle: L'Exposition Décennale des Beaux-Arts 1889 à 1900 , 1900, no. 14

Literature:

Salon de 1891,'. Art Français, no. 233, October 10, 1891, illustrated. Antonin Proust,. Le Salon de 1891, Paris, 1891, p. 67. Margaret Sangster, 'The Annunciation,' . Harpers Bazaar, vol. XXV, no. 18, March 26, 1892, p. 242, illustrated p. 249. Halsey C. Ives, . World's Columbian Exposition, 1893: official catalogue, Chicago, 1893, p. 97, no. 264. Charles M. Kurtz, . Illustrations from the art gallery of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, p. 83, illustrated. 'Religious Art in the World's Fair,' . The Unitarian, vol. VIII, 1893, p. 415. Lucy Monroe, 'Chicago Letter,'. The Critic, June 10, 1893, p. 391. . Catalogue officiel illustré de l'Exposition décennale des beaux arts de 1889 à 1900, Paris, 1900, p. 241, no. 14. Henri Frantz,. Le Salon de 1900 l'Exposition Décennale , Paris, 1900, p. 87 . . La Famille, March 16, 1902, illustrated on the cover. Gustave Kahn, 'Artistes contemporains, Alfred Agache,'. La Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Paris, August 1906, p. 130-1. Eusébia Garit,. Alfred Agache: un langage symbolique en marge du symbolisme, Ph.D dissertation, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille, 2010, vol. I, p. 216-8, illustrated fig. 126, vol. II, p. 787-8, no. 38, illustrated

Provenance:

Private Collection, France. Acquired from the above by the present owner