William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Literature

Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William Bouguereau, 2015, Reprinted Second edition, plate 115 (mirrored)

Provenance

With Goupil, Paris, 1872–74, stock nr. 7349, purchased from the artist, as "La Séduction," on 29 November 1872, for Fr 10,000
sold on 21 April 1874, half on account, to Knoedler
with Knoedler, New York, from 1874
Mrs. D.D. Colton, San Francisco, in 1892
Bernard R. Armour, Englewood, N. J., until died 1949
his wife, Mrs. Bernard R. (Martha S.) Armour, later Mrs. Jerome Gordon, Englewood, N.J., from 1949
her daughter, Mrs. Elliot L. (Ruth Armour) Kamen, Englewood, N.J., until 1960
her gift to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 60.122

Other works by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The Nymphaeum
1878

The Wasp's Nest
1892

The Big Sister
1877

Pleasant Burden
1895

The Book of Hours
1867