Flower Seller in London
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
On view
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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.
Published References 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 Bouqetière 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). 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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Salted paper print from glass negative
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