Louise Jopling
It Might Have Been
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October 15, 07:33 PM GMT
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Louise Jopling (née Goode)
British 1843 - 1933
It Might Have Been
signed lower left: Louise Jopling
oil on canvas
canvas: 43 ⅞ by 34 ⅛ in.; 111.4 by 86.7 cm
framed: 54 ⅛ by 44 ⅜ in.; 137.5 by 112.7 cm
We are grateful to Dr. Patricia de Montfort of the University of Glasgow for contributing to the cataloguing of this lot, which will be included in the forthcoming catalogue Louise Jopling: A Research Project currently in preparation (cat. no. 120).
Mr. Ben Lockwood, Huddersfield, 1877 (purchased directly from the artist)
Sale, Christie's East, London, 26 February 1991, lot 1 (as The Letter)
Sale, Christie's, New York, 13 October 1994, lot 290 (as A Young Woman Reading a Letter)
Private Collection, New York
Thence by descent to the present owner
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1877, no. 56
Paris, Salon, 1879, no. 1658 (as Cela aurait pu être?...)
Oscar Wilde, "The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877," Dublin University Magazine, July 1877, pp. 15-16
“The Grosvenor Gallery,” Tablet, 12 May 1877, pp. 585-587
Tom Taylor, “The Grosvenor Gallery II,” Graphic, 12 May 1877, pp. 454
“Magazines for May,” Bath Herald, 11 May 1878, p. 6
Henry Blackburn (ed.), Grosvenor Notes, 1877-1882, London 1878, p.7, no. 56,
Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants: exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées le 12 mai 1879 , pp. 137-138
Theodore Véron, Dictionnaire Véron, ou mémorial de l'art et des artistes de mon temps, Paris 1879, p. 317
E. F. S. Pattison, "The Salon of 1879 (Third Notice.)," The Academy, 7 June 1879, pp. 502-503
Colleen Denney, At the Temple of Art: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890, New Jersey 2000, pp. 130-131
Patricia de Montfort, Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study of the Modern Woman Artist in Victorian Britain, New York 2017, p. 57, fig 3.6 (wood engraving)
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