LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

80.00 in. (203.20 cm.) (height) by 49.76 in. (126.40 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed Virginie Demont-Breton and dated 1881 (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, . Salon des Artistes Français, 1881, no. 675 . Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (on temporary loan in 1896, 1902-3, possibly continuous

Literature:

Ludovic Baschet, ed., . L'Exposition de Beaux-Arts (Salon de 1881) , Paris, 1881, p. 287, illustrated p. 74 . George Lafenestre, . Le livre d'or du salon , Paris, 1881, p. 17, illustrated . "Le Salon de 1881," . Gazette des Beaux-Arts , Paris, 1881, vol. 24, p. 60. . Winslow Homer: All the Cullercoats Pictures , exh. cat., The Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 1988, p. 68, illustrated p. 69 . Annette Bourrut Lacouture, "Virginie Demont-Breton (1859-1935), La Famille, La Mer et les Mythes fin de siècle," . Bononia. Bulletin de l'Association des Amis des Musées de Boulogne-sur-Mer , 1991-92, nos. 19-20, p. 36-37, illustrated p. 37 . Tamar Garb, . Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris , New Haven, 1994, p. 14 . Nelson Cazeils and Fanny Fennec, . Il y a un siècle-- les femmes et la mer , Rennes, 2003, p. 109, illustrated . "Femmes et images. , ". CLIO, Histoire, Femmes, et . Societés ,. Toulouse, 2004, issue 19, p. 93

Provenance:

Goupil & Cie, Paris, no. 15208 (acquired directly from the artist, March 1881). Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 25-27, 1887, lot 48 (with incorrect dimensions). Mr. J.H. Van Eeghen, Esq., Amsterdam (acquired at the above sale and sold, Christie's, London, April 30, 1909, lot 107) . Royal Art Ltd., New Orleans (by 1984). Private Collection (acquired from the above and sold, Sotheby's, New York, November 2, 2001, lot 106, illustrated). Acquired at the above sale