PAUL-ALBERT BARTHOLOMÉ | The Ferret Game

Artist's studio ;
Florence Bartholomé Collection, the artist's widow ;
Simone-Fernande Guiboux Collection, niece of the above ;
Sale, Angers, 10 December 1989, n°457 ;
Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 May 1991, n°80

Salon, Paris, 1886, n°121 ;
Neuvième exposition annuelle des XX, Brussels, February 1892, n°1 ;
Universal Exhibition, Chicago, 1893, part X, department K, Fine Arts ;
Bartholomé, Künstlerhaus, Vienne, 1907, n°34

Letter from Albert Bartholomé to Octave Maus, 13 November 1891, mentioned ;
Prosper de Fleury, "Le Furet" in Jalons, 1886 ;
Alfred de Lostalet, "Salon de 1886" in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1886, p. 475 ;
Teodor de Wyzewa, "Peinture wagnérienne. Le Salon de 1886." in La Revue wagnérienne, Paris, 1886, p. 108-109 ;
Joseph Noulens, Artistes français et étrangers au Salon, 1885-1886, Paris, 1887, p. 319 ;
Jules Du Jardin, "Le Salon des XX" in La Fédération artistique, Paris, 14 February 1892 ;
Emile Verhaeren, "Le Salon des XX" in Journal de Bruxelles, Brussels, 7 February 1892 ;
Emile Verhaeren, "Le Salon des XX" in La Nation, Brussels, 15 February 1892 ;
Léonce Bénédite, "Albert Bartholomé" in Art et Décoration, vol. VI, 2nd semester, December 1899, p. 163 ;
Thérèse Burollet, Bartholomé, La redécouverte d'un grand sculpteur, Paris, 2017, p. 169, P24/A

original canvas; marks of stretcher visible on the lower edge; very thin network of craquelures in the lower left; several retouches, especially on the floor and background; on the building on the right, on the clothes of the schoolchildren, on the faces of 9 of them, including 4 important repaints (on girl in the back, on girl squatting at the back of the circle of children, on the girl standing in the middle of the circle, on the girl raising her right arm on the right side), on the characters in the background and repaints along the edges
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Bartholomé worked with diverse techniques : oil, pastel, and most of all sculpture, to which he dedicated himself from 1886 on, and for which he remains famous.