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| Mignon Pensive, from “Illustrated London News” |
Mignon Pensive, from “Illustrated London News”
Artist:
After William Bouguereau (French, La Rochelle 1825–1905 La Rochelle)
Publisher:
After Goupil & Co.
Date:
August 17, 1872
Medium:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:Sheet:
10 7/16 × 8 9/16 in. (26.5 × 21.8 cm)
Classification:
Prints
Credit Line:
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2016
Accession Number:
2016.774.11
In 1866, Bouguereau signed an exclusive contract with Goupil & Cie for both the sale of all his paintings and their reproduction rights. This print and its title derives from Goupil’s photograph of an 1869 painting, Mignon, which depicts the title character from an opera of the same name, based on Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister. The painting sold to a private collector in The Hague within a month of arriving at the Goupil Gallery in Paris, but its image circulated far beyond through the photograph and its reproduction, such as this wood engraving that appeared on the cover of the London Illustrated News. Bouguereau earned his reputation as one of the most successful nineteenth-century French academic painters in large part thanks to the circulation of his work in this manner, especially in the U.S. and U.K.
Provenance
Donor: Donato Esposito
Copyright Image
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