Lot 266
  • 266

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau
  • Young Girl with Lilies
  • signed Elizabeth Gardner (upper left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 8 5/8 by 6 3/8 in.
  • 21.9 by 16.1 cm

Condition

Unlined, stretcher bar marks along 4 edges; under UV: dots and dashes of inpainting to background and dot to centermost flower, possible inpainting to her cheeks and to right edge.
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Catalogue Note

The present work may be a study for Gardner's 1884 composition known as Girl with Lilies or it may have been titled in French, Innocence.  The same model appears in an 1887 work also titled Innocence and exhibited at the Paris Salon  (no. 990).