LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

68.27 in. (173.40 cm.) (height) by 35.51 in. (90.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed J. BASTIEN-LEPAGE, dated 82 and inscribed Londres (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts (Hôtel de Chimay), Exposition des oeuvres de Jules Bastien-Lepage, March-April 1885, no. 156. Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Peinture et Art Nouveau, April 24-July 26, 1999, no. 28. Paris, Musée d'Orsay; Verdun, Centre mondial de la Paix, Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), March 6, 2007-September 16, 2007, no. 54

Literature:

Dorothy Stanley, “Bastien-Lepage in London,” Art Journal, 1897, pp. 53-7. Richard Muther, History of Modern Painting, London, vol. 3, 1907, p. 267, illustrated p. 258. William Steven Feldman, The Life and Work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1973, pp. 166-7. Kenneth McConkey, “The Bouguereau of the Naturalists: Bastien-Lepage and British Art,” Art History 1, no. 3, 1978, p. 374. Christian Debize, Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) , exh. cat., Conservation des Musées de la Meuse, 1984, p. 5, 12, 21, 27. Jules Bastien-Lepage: Damvillers 1848-Paris 1884, exh. cat., Les Musées de la Meuse, 1984, illustrated p. 126. Madeleine Aubrun, Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884): Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre, Paris, 1985, p. 234, no. 368, illustrated. Gabriel P. Weisberg, Redefining Genre: French and American Painting 1850-1900, Washington, D.C., 1995, pp. 87-8, illustrated p. 87. Jacques Thuillier, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Metz, 2005, pp. 118-9. Kenneth McConkey, "Un petit cercle de thuriferaires - Bastien-Lepage et La Grande Bretagne," 48/18 La revue du Musee d'Orsay, no. 24, Spring 2007, p. 25, illustrated p. 24

Provenance:

Vente Bastien-Lepage, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 11-12, 1865, lot 6. Collection of Marie-Auguste Flameng, Nancy . Collection of Mlle Petit-Dossarise, Nancy. Collection of Jean-Louis Burtin, Nancy (probably acquired from the above in 1933). Thence by descent