Name: LÉON-JOSEPH-FLORENTIN BONNAT (FRENCH, 1833-1922)
Brand: Non piangere
Price: 8000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

LÉON-JOSEPH-FLORENTIN BONNAT (FRENCH, 1833-1922)
Non piangere
signed 'L: Bonnat.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
18¹⁄₂ x 13¹⁄₂ in. (47 x 34.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1872-1879.

The artist.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 May 1879.
Jules Auguste Boussaton (1821-1901), Paris.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 May 1891, lot 12.
Bayer (d. 1905), Paris, acquired at the above sale.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 June 1905, lot 9, as Non piangere, idylle.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 1996, lot 359, as Les deux enfants italiens.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 2004, lot 187, as Italian Children.

(possibly) J. d’Arcay, ‘Exposition de Cercle de l'union artistique,’ Figaro, Paris, 9 February 1872, p. 3.
(probably) Deroy, Férat, Fichot, etc., Les Merveilles de l'Exposition de 1878, Paris, 1879, p. 411.
V. Champier, L'Année artistique, Paris, 1879, pp. 158-159.
‘Art Sales,’ New York Herald, Paris, 4 May 1891, p. 2.
‘Succession de M. Bayer,’ La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, Paris, 29 July 1905, p. 224.
L. Énault, ‘Mouvement Artistique: Exposition du cercle de l’Union artistique,’ Le Consitutionnel, Paris, 6 March 1872, n.p.

(possibly) Marsailles, Exposition de Cercle de l'union artistique, 1872.
(probably) Paris, Exposition universalle, 1878.

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