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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 10, 2022 | Christie's | New York | Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection Part II | 156 | $****** - ****** | Marchande de fleurs à Londres |
paintings
174 x 89.8 cm (68.5 x 35.38 in)
oil on canvas
signed, inscribed, and dated 'J.BASTIEN-LEPAGE/LONDRES 82' (lower left)
The artist; estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-12 May 1885, lot 6.
Marie-Auguste Flameng, Paris.
Jean-Louis Burtin, Nancy.
Mlle Petit-Dossarise, Nancy (by 1933).
Private collection, France (by descent from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 2015, lot 6 (detail illustrated on the cover).
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Société internationale des peintres et sculpteurs, 1882, no. 3 (titled Marchande de fleurs).
Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Hôtel de Chimay, Exposition des oeuvres de Jules Bastien-Lepage , March-April 1885, no. 156.
Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Peinture et Art Nouveau, April-July 1999, pp. 52 and 54, no. 28, ill. 47 (illustrated in color, p. 54).
Paris, Musée d'Orsay and Verdun, Centre mondial de la Paix, Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) , March-September 2007, pp. 40-41, 44, 154-156, 158, 160, no. 54 (illustrated in color, p. 155).
Arc-et-Senans, Saline Royale d'Arc-et-Senans, Courbet, Proudhon: l'art et le peuple , June-September 2010, (titled Le petite bouguetière à Londres).
Seattle, Pivot Art + Culture, A Closer Look: Portraits from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection , December 2016-March 2017.
L. de Fourcaud, "Peinture en danger" in Le Gaulois , Paris, 22 December 1882, p. 1.
C. Frémine, "Exposition de la Société internationale des peintres et sculpteurs" in Le Rappel , Paris, 24 December 1882, n.p. (titled Marchande de fleurs).
L. de Fourcaud, "Exposition des Œuvres de Bastien-Lepage à l'Hôtel de Chimay" in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1885, vol. 31, pp. 265 and 267.
A. Theuriet, Jules Bastien-Lepage: L'homme et l'artiste , Paris, 1885, p. 47 (titled la Marchande de fleurs).
A. Theuriet, "Jules Bastien-Lepage: L'homme et l'artiste" in Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris, 1 March 1885, p . 822 (titled la Marchande de fleurs).
P. Eudel, L'Hôtel Drouot et la Curiosité en 1884-1885, Cinquième Annéé, Paris, 1886, XXXVII, p. 397.
A. Theuriet, Jules Bastien-Lepage and His Art: A Memoir , London, 1892, p. 59 (titled La Marchande de Fleurs (The Flower Girl) ).
J. Cartwright, Jules Bastien-Lepage , London, 1894, p. 59.
R. Muther, History of Modern Painting , London, vol. 3, 1896, p. 27 (illustrated with the engraving, p. 16).
D. Stanley, “Bastien-Lepage in London” in The Art Journal , 1897, p. 56.
Mrs. A. Bell, Representative Painters of the Nineteenth Century , London and New York, 1899, p. 116 (titled Flower Girl).
W. Brownell, French Art, Classic and Contemporary, New York, 1901, p. 86 (titled London Flower Girl).
S. Bernstamm, "Un grand Peintre Bastien-Lepage" in L'Eclaireur du Dimanche, Nice, 9 September 1923, p. 9 (titled Marchande de fleurs) .
W. S. Feldman, The Life and Work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) , unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, February 1973, pp. 166-167 (illustrated, fig. 57).
K. McConkey, “The Bouguereau of the Naturalists: Bastien-Lepage and British Art” in Art History, vol. 1, no. 3, Henley-on-Thames, 1978, p. 374 (illustrated, fig. 48).
K. McConkey, A Painter's Harvest: works by Henry Herbert La Thangue, R. A. 1859-1929, Oldham, 1978, p. 8 (illustrated, p. 9, fig. 6; titled Marchande de Fleurs a Londres).
C. Debize and P. Pagnotta, Jules Bastien-Lepage: Damvillers 1848-Paris 1884 , Bar-le-Duc, 1984 (illustrated, p. 126).
M.-M. Aubrun, Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884): Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre , Paris, 1985, p. 234, no. 368 (illustrated).
G. P. Weisberg, Redefining Genre: French and American Painting 1850-1900 , Washington, D.C., 1995, pp. 87-88 (illustrated, p. 87, fig. 2.14; titled The Flower Vendor (Le Marchande de fleurs) ).
H. Claude, "Peinture et Art Nouveau: L'exposition du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy" in Le Pays Lorrain , Nancy, July 1999, vol. 80, p. 198 (illustrated in color).
B. Ponton, Jules Bastien-Lepage, peintre lorrain , Charenton-le-Pont, 1999, p. 21 (titled La Marchande de fleurs à Londres).
J. Thuillier, Jules Bastien-Lepage , Metz, 2005, p. 118 (illustrated, p. 119; titled Bouqeti è re à Londres).
K. McConkey, "Un petit cercle de thuriféraires- Bastien-Lepage et La Grande Bretagne" in 48/18 La revue du Musée d'Orsay , no. 24, Spring 2007, p. 25 (illustrated in color, p. 24, fig. 6).
JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE (1848-1884)
Marchande de fleurs à Londres
signed, inscribed, and dated 'J.BASTIEN-LEPAGE/LONDRES 82' (lower left)
oil on canvas
68 1/2 x 35 3/8 in. (174 x 89.9 cm.)
Painted in London in 1882
