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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905)
Title
Meditation
maker
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905)
Date
1885
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
52 × 34 in. (132.1 × 86.4 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
From the Collection of Guy C. Barton, gift of his grandson, Rexford Wadleigh Barton
Object Number
1974.54
On View
Not on view
Purchased from Goupil & Cie by Blackeslee & Co., New York, September 8, 1886.
With Lanthier’s Old Curiosity Shop, New York by February 10, 1906, as Brittany Girl;
Purchased from Lanthier’s Old Curiosity Shop by Guy C. Barton (1839–1909), Omaha, February 10, 1906–1909;
By descent to his grandson, Rexford Wadleigh Barton (1898–1968), Berkeley, California, 1909–1968;
Inherited by his wife, Marybelle Barton, Berkeley, California, 1968–November 1, 1974;
Her gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1974.
Frenquet, Charles, Comte de Franqueville, Le premier siècle de l’Institut de France (Paris: Rothschild, 1895), 370.
Marius Vachon, William Bouguereau (Paris: Lahure, 1900), 156.
Hollister Sturges, Angels and Urchins: Images of Children at the Joslyn, exh. cat. (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1980), 57–58, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 87–90, (repro.).
Mark Steven Walker, “Summary Catalogue of the Paintings,” in William-Adolphe Bougureau: L’Art Pompier (New York: Borghi & Co., 1991), 72.
Damien Bartoli and Frederick Ross, William Bouguereau: His Life and Works, vol. 1 (New York: New York Antique Collectors’ Club, 2014), 232, no. 1885/05, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 170–71, (repro.).