Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (organizer) (December 13, 1974-January 26, 1975). Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). Bouguereau & America. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (February 14-May 12, 2019); Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN (organizer) (June 22-September 22, 2019). New York Cultural Center. William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1975), no. 15, pl. 15. Gifu (Japan), Museum of Fine Arts; Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art. Paris autour de 1882 (1982-83), no. 13, pl. 13. Paris, Musée du Petit Palais; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum. William Bouguereau 1825-1905 (1984-85), 64, 108, no. 90 (repr.). Norfolk, Chrysler Museum; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition (1989-90), 237-38 (repr.).
One of the most celebrated academic painters of his time, Bouguereau underscores the moral virtues of the Italian peasants in this painting by depicting the dome of St. Peter's in the distance. The idealized figures and their triangular grouping recall the Holy Family paintings by Renaissance master Raphael 400 years earlier. The painting was purchased directly from the artist by Cleveland banker and philanthropist Hinman B. Hurlbut in July 1879.
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 0 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.