LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on plywood

Measurements:

24.41 in. (62.00 cm.) (height) by 28.35 in. (72.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'JF RAFFAËLLI' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon, 1891, no. 753. Munich, Secession, circa 1895, no. 822B.

Literature:

The Craftsman. An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living, May 1904, pp. 154-161 (illustrated). L'Art Français, 6 June 1891, p. 3 (illustrated). A. Arsène, Jean-François Raffaëlli. Peintre, Graveur et Sculpteur, Paris, 1909, p. 224. B. Schinman Fields, Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850-1924): The Naturalist Artist, Columbia University, Ph.D. thesis, 1979, fig. 73, p. 462 (illustrated).