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LÉON-JEAN-BASILE PERRAULT (FRENCH, 1832-1908)
Le réveil de l’amour
signed and dated 'L-Perrault ·91·' (lower left)
oil on panel
3214 x 4412 in. (81.9 x 112.9 cm.)
Provenance
Doliber-Goodale Co., Boston, by 1893.
with Galerías La Granja, Mexico City.
Private collection, Wichita, KS, acquired directly from the above, 1961.
By descent to their heirs.
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 2014, lot 20.
with Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York, 19 December 2014.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner.
Literature
A. Wolff, Figaro-salon, Paris, 1891, p. 2, 46, illustrated.
A. Proust, Le Salon de 1891, Paris, 1891, p. 13, illustrated.
G. Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, Paris, 1893, p. 1235.
'Chronique Artistique,' La Chronique universelle, Paris, December 1890, p. 387-388.
'A Travers les salles,' La Justice, Paris, 30 April 1891, p. 2.
'Figaro-salon 1891,' Le Figaro, Paris, 1 May 1891, p. 1.
G. Calmette, 'Le Salon,' Le Figaro, Paris, 30 April 1891, p. 2.
'Le Salon des Champs-Élysées,' Le Petit Parisien, Paris, 5 May 1891, n.p.
J. de Polane, 'Le Salon,' Le Pays, Paris, 1 May 1891, n.p.
'Le Salon aux Champs-Élysées,' La Nation, Paris, 1 May 1891, n.p.
F. Javel, 'Salon de 1891,' Le Petite presse, Paris, 6 May 1891, n.p.
M. Ellinger, 'Publisher's Notes,' The Menorah, vol. 15, New York, July 1893, p. 62-63.
'The Child in Art,' Art in Advertising, New York, May 1893, p. 109-113, illustrated.
'The Child in Art,' The Century Advertising Supplement, October 1893, p. a1-a4, illustrated.
H. L. Bird, This Fascinating Advertising Business, Indianapolis and New York, 1947, p. 43.
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1891, p. 112, 122, no. 1293, illustrated.
Chicago, World Columbian Exposition, 1 May-30 October 1893, in the Mellin's Food Exhibit.
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