Thomas Couture

Soap Bubbles



Thomas Couture - Soap Bubbles



Thomas Couture
Soap Bubbles
c. 1859
130.8 x 98.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and inscribed, lower left T.C.; (on paper) immortalité de l'un...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 49


Provenance

John Wolfe, New York, until 1863
sale, Leed's, Old Düsseldorf Gallery, New York, 22-23 December 1863, nr. 129, to Hoey
J. Hoey, New York, from 1863, sold to Sanford
James T. Sanford, New York, by 1864–at least 1867
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York, by 1876–d. 1887

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 87.15.22

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