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Auguste Toulmouche, THE SERIOUS BOOK (LE LIVRE SÉRIEUX), 1874
Auguste Toulmouche, THE SERIOUS BOOK (LE LIVRE SÉRIEUX), 1874
Auguste Toulmouche, THE SERIOUS BOOK (LE LIVRE SÉRIEUX), 1874

Auguste Toulmouche

THE SERIOUS BOOK (LE LIVRE SÉRIEUX), 1874
oil on canvas
32 1/2 by 25 in. (82.5 by 63.5 cm.)
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Provenance

Goupil & cie, Paris, March 1874, no. 8843

Alexander Turney Stewart, August 1874 (acquired from the above)

Cornelia M. Stewart, New York (widow of the above and sold, her estate, American Art Association, New York, March 23-25, 1887, lot 39)

John H. Converse, Rosemont, Pennsylvania (acquired at the above sale and sold, his estate, American Art Galleries, January 6, 1911, lot 51)

Mrs. Stetson (acquired at the above sale)

Sale: Christie’s, New York, 19 April 2005, lot 204 as Afternoon Idyll

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibitions

Paris, Salon, 1874, no. 1721

Literature

“The Salon Paris,” The Athenaeum, no. 2430, May 23, 1874, p. 705

"Le Livre Sérieux," The Illustrated London News, vol. LXV, December 12, 1874, p. 558, illustrated opp.

Edward Strahan, ed. The Art Treasures of America, Philadelphia, 1879, vol. I, pp. 39, 52, illustrated opp. p. 46
Kathryn J. Brown, Women Readers in French Paintings 1870-1890, Surrey, 2012, p. 20

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