Literature

Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William Bouguereau, 2015, Reprinted Second edition, plate 201

Provenance

The artist
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired directly from the above during the Exposition universelle, delivered 12 December 1889, as Chansons d'Amour
George S. Scott, New York, acquired directly from the above, 31 December 1889
George B. Mathews (died 1942) and Jenny R. Modisette Matthews (died 1951), Buffalo, NY, by 1896
by descent to their heirs, Charlotte, NC
their sale, Christie's, New York, 12 April 2007, nr. 100
acquired at the above sale by the present owner
sale Christie's, New York, 28 October 2019, nr. 214

Other works by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Child Holding Flowers
1878

The Arbour
1871

L'admiration
1897

Emperor Napoleon III Visiting the Victims of the Tarascon Flood
1857

Grape Picker
1875