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Washerwomen of Fouesnant
186930 x 23 5/8 in. (76.2 x 60 cm)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
France (La Rochelle, France, 1825 – 1905, La Rochelle, France)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Bertha Buswell Bequest
Accession Number:
1955.61
Location: Currently on view
Collection:
Buswell-Hochstetter Collection
In Fouesnant, a bay in Brittany, Bouguereau found the source material that would fuel his work for years to come. Academic artists viewed scenes of peasants performing their usual daily chores as a modern-day counterpart to the rustic figures of antiquity so beloved in historical paintings. Despite their circumstances, peasants in Academic paintings were usually depicted as clean, well-fed and neatly dressed. Here a girl carrying laundry resembles a caryatid, a classical figure used to support an architectural pediment.
[Gallery label text, 2011]
[Gallery label text, 2011]
Marks
Backing board; has been relined, with new stretcher.
Provenance
Sold by the artist to Goupil, Paris (dealer), 1869; sold by them to M. Lallou, Paris, 1871; John Snedecor, New York (dealer); his sale, Leavitt Art Galleries, New York, March 28-30, 1872, lot 140; Mrs. Colin Leiter Campbell, New York, NY; her sale, American Art Association, April 30 1936, as lot 20; J. P. Fritz, New York, NY (dealer?); William Randolph Hearst; his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, January 5-7, 1939, as lot 12; purchased from that sale by Bertha Hochstetter (Mrs. Henry) Buswell, Buffalo, NY; her bequest to the Gallery, 1941; lifetime interest held by her brother, Ralph Hochstetter, Buffalo, NY, until his death in 1955, when it passed to the Gallery
Keywords
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genre scenes
scenes of everyday life
scenes of everyday life
jobs & work
depictions of working, also professions as subcategories
depictions of working, also professions as subcategories
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- The Buswell-Hochstetter Collections 11/11/1955 - 11/28/1955
- Man and his Work Memorial Art Gallery 1967-1968
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau 12/13/1974 - 4/5/1975
- Out of the Drawing Room 7/8/1995 - 9/17/1995
- Eanger Irving Couse: A Place in the Sun 9/11/2008 - 2/8/2009
- Bouguereau & America Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 2/14/2019 - 3/15/2020
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: The November Exhibitions: The Buswell-Hochstetter Collections. Article Scope: Article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 21, Issue Number: 2. Issue Date: November-December, 1955.
- Article Author: Smith, Virginia Jeffrey. Article Title: Artists and Craftsmen: Intriguing Acquisitions Sampled at Gallery. Article Scope: Article. Rochester Times-Union. Rochester, New York, 1923-1963. Issue Date: November 14, 1955. Page Number: 48
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Article Scope: Mention. William-Adolphe Bouguereau: L'Art Pompier. New York, NY: Borghi & Co., 1992.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Daniel Yonnet and A. Cariou. Le Finistère des peintres. Rennes, France: Editions Ouest-France, 1993.
- Charles Vendryes. Catalogue illustré des oeuvres de W. Bouguereau. Paris, France, 1885.
- Marius Vachon. W. Bouguereau. Paris, France: A. Lahure, 1900.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Robert Isaacson. William-Adolphe Bouguereau. New York, NY: The New York Cultural Center, 1974.
- Article Scope: Catalogue Raisonné entry and reproduction. Damien Bartoli and Frederick Ross. William Bouguereau. New York, NY: Antique Collectors' Club, 2010. Volume Number: 1, His Life and Works
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie Searl and Lu Harper. The Memorial Art Gallery: 100 Years. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2013.
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Tanya Paul, ed. Bouguereau & America. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2019.
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