Literature

Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William Bouguereau, 2015, Reprinted Second edition, plate 34

Provenance

Commissioned by Anatole Bartholoni, Paris
Paris sale, Drouot, 27 April 1933, nr. 32, Arion chevauchant un monstre marin, nr. 33, Bacchante sur une panthère (repr.)
Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1972
Christopher Gibbs Ltd., London, 1973
London sale, Sotheby's, 30 November 1977, nr. 208, Arion sur un dauphin, Bacchante sur une panthère (repr.), £6500
Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland
bequeathed to the CMA in 1980

External links

The Cleveland Museum of Art Accession number 1980.238.2

Other works by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Portrait of Marius Vachon
1900

Young Schoolgirl (head)
1868

Canephors
1852

The Edge of the River
1888

The Temptation
1880