LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.49 in. (100.30 cm.) (height) by 57.01 in. (144.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Firmin Girard, inscribed Paris, and dated 1875 (lower left)

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon, 1876, no. 903; New York, Exhibiton of Paintings in Aid of the Baptist Home for the Aged, the Private Collection of Theron R. Butler and a Few Pictures Loaned by Friends, November 22-24 [1909?], no. 12 (as The Paris Flower Market); New York, Knoedler, Views of Paris, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, January 9-28, 1939, no. 14, as Marche aux Fleurs (lent by Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, So this is Paris, Exhibition of Paintings, October 4-29, 1950, no. 13, as Le Marché aux Fleurs (lent by Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse)

Literature:

Edward Strahan, ed. The Art Treasures of America, Philadelphia, 1879, vol.III, p. 121, 131 illustrated; in the 1977 facsimile edition, vol. III, p. 115, 125, illustrated opp. p. 115, as The Flower Market Paris; G. W. Sheldon, Hours with Art and Artists, New York, 1882, p. 35; "Firmin Girard's Flower-Market," The Art Journal, vol. 3, 1877, p. 48; "The Artist's Paris," The New York Times, January 8, 1939, illustrated in a special "rotogravure picture section"; Robert Ayre, "Art Notes, Famous Artists Portray Paris at Local Exhibit," The Montreal Daily Star, October 14, 1950, p. 24; Paul Girard, Firmin-Girard par son fils, Orleans, 1988, p. 8, 26, no.103; and illustrated and discussed within the contemporary articles reprinted pp. 74-83

Provenance:

Knoedler, New York (acquired from the artist, 1876); Theron R. Butler (acquired from the above and sold, his sale, American Art Association, New York, January 7, 1910, lot 74, illustrated, as Flower Market); Possibly, Harriet Valentine Crocker Alexander, New York (acquired at the above sale); Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse, New York (by 1939); The Hon. and Mrs. Charles S. Whitehouse, Virginia (by descent from the above, his parents)