Literature

Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William Bouguereau, 2015, Reprinted Second edition, plate 102

Provenance

With Goupil, Paris, 1871–72, stock nr. 6009, purchased from the artist, as "La Toilette (Italienne et son enfant)," on 23 December 1871, for Fr 8,000
sold on 27 April 1872, for Fr 17,000, to Knoedler
with M. Knoedler, New York, from 1872
Mrs. J.T. Pyle, New York, from the 19th century
her daughter, Zene Montgomery Pyle, until died 1993

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1993.402

Other works by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Crossing the Ford
1869

The Italian with a Mandolin
1870

At the Fountain
1897

Harvest Time
1872

The Two Sisters
1877