Bouguereau and His Circle: Then and Now
Bouguereau and His Circle: Then and Now
Property of an American Private Collection
Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau
Girl at the Well (Un coin de ferme)
Auction Closed
January 26, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau
American
1837 - 1922
Girl at the Well (Un coin de ferme)
signed Elizabeth Gardner (lower left)
oil on canvas
canvas: 67 by 34½ in.; 170.1 by 87.6 cm
framed: 75¾ by 43 in.; 192.4 by 109.2 cm
With Boussod, Valadon et Cie, Paris (as of September 3, 1885)
With Knoedler Gallery, New York
John Knoedler, New York
His Sale: The American Art Association, New York, 13 April 1893, no. 298 (as A Corner of the Farmyard)
Acquired by Theo Hofstetter at the above sale
By descent, Mrs. Theo Hofstetter, New York
Sale: Clarke’s, New York, 9 March 1911, lot 111
Acquired by F. B. Hoffman (probably Francis Burrall Hoffman Sr. (1845-1924) or Francis Burrall Hoffman Jr. (1882-1980), New York) at the above sale
With Joan Michelman Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner (March 11, 1987)
F. G. Dumas, Catalogue illustré du Salon, 1885 Paris, pp. xxvii, no. 1050, 73, illustrated.