Abbott Fuller Graves

Boston Art Club, Boston, Massachusetts, 1888 (acquired from the artist)
Private collection 
By descent to the present owner

(possibly) Paris, France, Salon of 1888 (as Peonies)
Paris, France, Universal Exposition, 1889, no. 128, illustrated

Frank T. Robinson, Living New England Artists, Boston, Massachusetts, 1888, p. 88, illustrated opp. p. 86
Theodore Child, "The Paris Salon," The Art Amateur, vol. 19, June 1888, p. 2 (as Peonies)
Annette Blaugrund, et. al., Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, New York, 1989, p. 278

The canvas is lined and the edges of the original canvas are trimmed. There is craquelure throughout. Under UV: there is inpainting to address craquelure primarily at center, a 6 inch horizontal line at the center right edge and a 3 inch area at the upper left corner. There are other scattered dots and lines of inpainting throughout.
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