LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache and watercolor on paper

Measurements:

25.39 in. (64.50 cm.) (height) by 39.17 in. (99.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed EDOUARD LIÈVRE / d' après T. Couture centre left

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon, 1859, no. 1998

Literature:

Albert Boime, Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision, London, 1980, pp. 131 - 188, the original discussed; pp. 132 - 133, pl. VI, the original illustrated; detail of the original illustrated on the cover. Michel Laclotte, Geneviève Lacambre, Anne Distel, Claire Frèches-Thory, Painting in the Musée d'Orsay, London, 1986, p. 22, the original catalogued and illustrated