19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Property of a Private Collector, Philadelphia
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June 11, 04:14 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Property of a Private Collector, Philadelphia
CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE
American
1851 - 1914
SAINTE GENEVIÈVE
signed CHARLES-SPRAGUE-PEARCE and inscribed AUVERS-S-OISE-S-ET-O (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 83 1⁄4 by 67 in.; 211.5 by 170.2 cm
framed: 92 1⁄4 by 75 3⁄4 in.; 234.3 by 192.4 cm
Private Collection, England
Private Collection, Florida
Peter Rudolph, Philadelphia (by 1992)
Lagakos-Turak Gallery, Philadelphia
Acquired from the above in 1996
Ludovic Baschet, ed., Salon de 1887, Catalogue illustré, Paris, 1887, p. 32, no. 1849, illustrated p. 142 (a drawing after the painting)
"Chronique artistique, Le Salon de Bruxelles 1887," La Jeune Belgique, vol. 6, 1887, p. 325
"Le Salon de 1887," Revue du monde catholique, vol. 90, 1887, p. 453
"The Salon-II," The Magazine of Art, London, 1887, p. 357
"Art at the Exposition," Chicago Tribune, September 4, 1888, p. 4
"Pictures on Exhibition," Chicago Tribune, September 21, 1888, p. 8
"Art, Object Lessons at the Academy Exhibition," The American, February 9, 1889, p. 265-6
"Pictures from the Spring Exhibition of the National Academy of Design," Harper's Weekly, April 6, 1889, p. 269, illustrated (a drawing after the painting)
"Art," The Churchman, April 20, 1889, p. 497
"American Work at the Berlin Exhibition of Fine Arts," The Literary Digest, August 8, 1896, p. 460
The Junior Classics: Stories of Courage and Heroism, New York, 1918, illustrated after p. 66
Jennifer A. Martin Bienenstock, "Gari Melchers and the Belgian Art World 1882-1908," Gari Melchers, a Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida and travelling, 1990-1991, pp. 82, 89
Lois Marie Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons, Cambridge, 1990, pp. 278, 379
Gabriel P. Weisberg, Beyond Impressionism: The Natural Impulse, New York, 1992, p. 154, illustrated p. 156
D. Dodge Thompson, "Charles Sprague Pearce," Antiques the Magazine, November 1993, p. 685, illustrated
Mary Lublin, A Rare Elegance: The Paintings of Charles Sprague Pearce, exh. cat., 1993, p. 36, illustrated p. 74, no. 25
Emmanuelle Amiot-Saulnier, "L'influence de Jules Bastien-Lepage: un passage vers la modernité, Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), exh. cat., Museé d'Orsay, Paris; Centre Mondial de la Paix, March 2007-September 2007, p. 67
Gabriel P. Weisberg, et al, Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography, and Cinema 1875–1918, exh.cat., 2011, p. 94, fig. 92, illustrated
Paris, Salon des artistes français, 1887, no. 1849
Le salon de Bruxelles (Brussels Triennial), 1887
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (annual exhibition), 1888, no. 178
Chicago, Interstate Industrial Exposition, 1888
New York, National Academy of Design, 1889
Loan Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1890 (lent by Shadrach H. Pearce, the artist's father)
Berlin, Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, 1891
Berlin, Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1896
New York, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, A Rare Elegance: The Paintings of Charles Sprague Pearce, October 23-December 4, 1993, no. 25 (lent by a Private Collection)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (on temporary loan, 2003-2011, by the present owner)
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum; Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography, and Cinema 1875–1918, October 8, 2010-May 15, 2011, n.n. (lent by the present owner)
Seattle, Frye Art Museum (on temporary loan, 2012-2020, by the present owner)
Seattle, Frye Art Museum, Ties That Bind: American Artists in Europe, July 14-September 23, 2012
Seattle, Frye Art Museum, American Portraits, May 14-August 30, 2015