Artist
Jules Bastien-Lepage(French, 1848–1884)French, 1848–1884
CultureFrench
Titles
- Flower Seller in London
- Marchande de fleurs à Londres
Date1882
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 68 1/2 × 35 3/8 in. (174 × 89.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment
Object number2022.479
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
221 Shell Oil Gallery
Exposé
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Department
Arts of Europe and the MediterraneanObject Type
Exhibition HistoryParis, 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.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The painting is signed “J. Bastien-Lepage Londres” and dated 1882.
None.
Catalogue raisonnéAubrun, Marie-Madeleine. Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1848-1884: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre. Paris: M.M. Aubrun,1985.
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