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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 31, 2018 | Christie's | New York | European Art: Part I | 28 | $****** - ****** | Élégante sur le boulevard des Italiens, Paris |
paintings
135.3 x 120.7 cm (53.27 x 47.52 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'J F RAFFAËLLI' (lower right)
The artist.
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, acquired directly from the above, 1899.
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 15 May 1979, lot 4, as Boulevard des Italiens, Paris.
Raymond (d. 1995) and Miriam (d. 2009) Klein, Philadelphia, acquired at the above sale.
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 27 January 2010, lot 47.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 4th Annual Exhibition, 2 November 1899-1 January 1900, np., no. 186, pl. 3, illustrated, as Boulevard des Italiens, Paris.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Retrospective exhibition of paintings from previous internationals, 1896-1955, 5 December 1958-8 February 1959, no. 14, illustrated, as Boulevard des Italiens, Paris.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan, January-April 1980.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan, January-April 1984.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan, January-April 1987.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan, January-April 1991.
San Francisco, de Young Museum, Impressionist Paris: City of Light, 5 June-26 September 2010, pp. 26-27, fig. 24, illustrated.
A. Alexandre, Jean-François Raffaëlli: peintre, graveur, sculpteur, Paris, 1909, n.p., no. 28, as Parisienne sur le boulevard des Italiens.
S. Hartmann, 'Our American Art Museums, The Department of Fine Arts of the Carnegie Institute,' Arts and Decoration, vol. 5, no. 11, September 1915, p. 420, illustrated, as Boulevard des Italiens.
L. M. Bryant, What Pictures to See in America, New York, 1915, p. 197, fig. 120, illustrated.
W. Curtain, The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews 1893-1902, Lincoln, NE, 1970, p. 764, as Boulevard des Italiens.
B. Fields, Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850-1924): The Naturalist Artist, PhD. diss., Columbia University, 1979, p. 329, as Boulevard des Italiens, Paris.
P. Duryea, Paintings and Drawings in Willa Cather's Prose, A catalogue raisonné, PhD. diss., University of Nebraska, 1993, p. 251, as Boulevard des Italiens.
K. Neal, A Wise Extravagance: The Founding of the Carnegie International Exhibitions, 1895-1901, Pittsburgh, 1996, pp. 103, 169, 191, fig. 43, illustrated, as Boulevard des Italiens, Paris.
W. Cather, M. Madigan ed., Youth and the Bright Medusa, Scholarly Edition, Lincoln, NE, 2009, p. 424, as Boulevard des Italiens, Paris.
signed 'J F RAFFAËLLI' (lower right)
oil on canvas
53 ¼ x 47 ½ in. (135.3 x 120.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1899.
