Auguste Toulmouche
Further images
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