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William Adolphe BOUGUEREAU (1825 - 1905)
Roman Scene, 1855
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504
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William Adolphe BOUGUEREAU (1825 - 1905)
Roman Scene, 1855
O…
See original version (French)
Estimate €90,000 - €100,000
Voluntary lot
Description
William Adolphe BOUGUEREAU (1825 - 1905)
Roman Scene, 1855
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left
110 x 81.5 cm
(Shrinkage of the material mainly in the red of the woman's tunic, some restorations)
Provenance :
- Purchased directly from the artist by the Sainte-Affrique family
- By descent to the current owners
Bibliography :
- William Bouguereau - Catalogue raisonné of his Painted Work by Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, Antique Collectors Club, 2010, described and reproduced on page 43 under N° 1855/08
Bouguereau made numerous studies for this painting, including a very accomplished one of the man seated in the foreground. This is almost certainly a studio work, with the father in the foreground in exactly the same position as in our painting, with only the stone band at the entrance replaced by a stool and a drape covering the model's nudity.
There is also a watercolour that reproduces our painting exactly.
Experts Amaury de Louvencourt & Agnès Sevestre Barbé
See original version (French)
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