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PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE collects ION

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau

Edward Prince of Wales and Richard, Duke of York in the Tower of London

Lot Closed

October 6, 04:08 PM GTNN

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an American Private collects ion

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau

American 1837 - 1922

Edward Prince of Wales and Richard, Duke of York in the Tower of London


signed, inscribed, and dated lower left: E. J. Gardner/ d'apres P. Delaroche/ Paris 1866.

oil on canvas

canvas: 35 ½ by 41 ½ in.; 90.1 by 105.4 cm

framed: 48 by 54 in.; 121.9 by 137.1 cm

John Nicholas Brown, Newport, Rhode Island (probably);

Sale: New Port Estates Auction, 30 September 1987 (probably);

with Newman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA;

Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Charles Pearo, Elizabeth Jane Gardner: Her Life, Her Work, Her Letters. MA Thesis, McGill University, 1997, p. 121. 

Charles Pearo, "Elizabeth Jane Gardner and the American Colony in Paris: 'Making Hay while the Sun Shines' in the Business of Art," Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 43, no. 4, Winter 2009, p. 286, note 48.