LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (height) by 27.25 in. (69.22 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed FIRMIN-GIRARD. and dated 1875. (lower left)

Literature:

P. de la Flecherye, Le Salon de 1875, Paris, 1875, pp. 120-1, no. 926; Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century, Boston, 1879, vol. 1, p. 299; Louis Viardot and others, The Masterpieces of French art, illustrated: being a biographical history of art in France, from the earliest period to and including the Salon of 1881, Philadelphia, 1881, vol. 1, illustrated; Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie and Louis Auvray, Dictionnaire General des Artistes de l'École Française, Paris, 1882; Albert de la Fizelière, Memento du Salon de peinture, de gravure et de sculpture en 1875: indiquant les œuvres les plus remarquables exposées au Palais de l'industrie, Paris, 1875, p. 22; Clarence C. Cook, Art and Artists of our Time, New York, 1888, vol. 1, pp. 111-4, illustrated p. 112 ; The Critic, vol. 11, March 2, 1889, p. 123 ; Virginia Spate, Claude Monet, Life and Work, New York, 1992, p. 79, illustrated; Paul Girard, Firmin-Girard par son Petit-Fils, Orléans, 1998, p. 34, no. 41, illustrated

Provenance:

Probably, Samuel P. Avery, New York (in 1881); Thomas A. Howell, Brooklyn (and sold: Mr. Thomas Howell's collection of modern paintings, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 27, 1889, lot 45); Goupil Galleries, New York; Knoedler & Company, New York; Sale: Freeman's Fine Arts, Philadelphia, October 20, 1979, lot 283; Ira Spanierman Gallery, New York; Private Collection