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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Woman from Brittany by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
    Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret. Woman from Brittany, 1886. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
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    Woman from Brittany

    by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower right: P.A.J.Dagnan-B. 1886

    Exhibition history

    Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Dagnan-Bouveret, March 1–24, 1901, cat. 11. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, May 10–August, 1910, cat. 15. New York, Dahesh Museum of Art at the National Academy Museum, Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of Academic Art, September 10–December 7, 2002, no cat. no; traveled to Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, January 3–February 9, 2003.

    Publications

    “Exhibitions,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 15 (1921), p. 156 (ill.). Catalogue des oeuvres de M. Dagnan-Bouveret, exh. cat (Paris: Galerie Maurice Rousseau, 1930), p. 24. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 112. Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 108, 111 (ill.). Gretchen Wold, “Some notes on The Pardon in Brittany by Dagnan-Bouveret,” Metropolitan Museum Journal 35 (2000), pp. 241–43, fig. 5, p. 245 n. 14, n. 18. Gabriel P. Weisberg, Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition, exh. cat. (New York: Dahesh Museum of Art, 2002), pp. 82–83, 121, 129, fig. 85. M. Therese Southgate, “The Cover,” Journal of the American Medical Association 287, 18 (2002), p. 2327 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (French, 1852–1929)
    Date
    1886
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    36.2 × 27.9 cm (14 1/4 × 11 in.); Framed: 53.4 × 43.9 × 7.7 cm (21 × 17 1/4 × 3 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    19th century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Potter Palmer Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.442

    Provenance

    Jules Roederer (died 1888), Le Havre, France; sold his sale Galerie George Petit, Paris, 5 June 1891, lot 7 for 5,500 francs as Bretonne [price according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague]. Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago, October 1891 [according to an inventory of the Palmer collection dated December 1921, Archives, Art Institute]; his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918); by descent to their sons Honoré and Potter Palmer; given to the Art Institute, 1922.

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