Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau

Edward Prince of Wales and Richard, Duke of York in the Tower of London

Auction Closed

January 26, 07:56 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau

American

1837 - 1922

Edward Prince of Wales and Richard, Duke of York in the Tower of London

signed, inscribed, and dated E. J. Gardner/ d'apres P. Delaroche/ Paris 1866. (lower left)

oil on canvas

canvas: 35½ by 41½ in.; 90.1 by 105.4 cm

framed: 48 by 54 in.; 121.9 by 137.1 cm

John Nicholas Brown, Newport, Rhode Island (probably)

Sale: New Port Estates Auction, 30 September 1987 (probably)

with Newman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Charles Pearo, Elizabeth Jane Gardner: Her Life, Her Work, Her Letters. MA Thesis, McGill University, 1997, p. 121.
Charles Pearo, "Elizabeth Jane Gardner and the American Colony in Paris: 'Making Hay while the Sun Shines' in the Business of Art," Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 43, no. 4, Winter 2009, p. 286, note 48.