WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU (la Rochelle 1825-1905) - Lot 158

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WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU (la Rochelle 1825-1905) - Lot 158
WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU (la Rochelle 1825-1905) The Secret Oil on Paper. 20 x 14 cm Louise d'Argencourt recognizes our sketch as an original work by Bouguereau, painted between 1873 and 1876. She likens it to several preparatory sketches executed by Bouguereau for Le Secret (Canvas, 1.30 x 0.85 cm) commissioned by Robert L. Stuart in 1873 and now kept at the New York Historical Society (see D. Bartoli, F.C. Ross, William Bouguereau, Catalogue raisonné of his painted work, New York, 2010, 1876/02). The Fondation Custodia keeps a letter from Bouguereau to Robert Stuart dated 28 October 1873, in which the artist indicates that he sent him six preparatory studies, leaving the choice to the commissioner before he returned them to him. Stuart chose the study closest to the current painting, requesting the addition of a child's figure that appears on our study, giving the artist the desired time to paint the painting.
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