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| The Proposal |
Artist:
William Bouguereau (French, La Rochelle 1825–1905 La Rochelle)
Date:
1872
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
64 3/8 x 44 in. (163.5 x 111.8 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Elliot L. Kamen, in memory of her father, Bernard R. Armour, 1960
In the first catalogue of Bouguereau's work, published in 1885, this work is entitled Seduction. It has also been known as The Persuasion of Marguerite and Faust and Marguerite, a subject that was frequently depicted in the nineteenth century. However, any connection between the painting and Goethe's dramatic poem is purely speculative and must have resulted from the vaguely sixteenth-century German appearance of the setting and costumes.
Provenance
[Goupil, Paris, 1872–74; stock no. 7349; purchased from the artist, as "La Séduction," on November 29, 1872, for Fr 10,000; sold on April 21, 1874, half on account, to Knoedler]; [Knoedler, New York, from 1874]; Mrs. D. D. Colton, San Francisco (in 1892); Bernard R. Armour, Englewood, N. J. (until d. 1949); his wife, Mrs. Bernard R. (Martha S.) Armour, later Mrs. Jerome Gordon, Englewood, N. J. (from 1949); her daughter, Mrs. Elliot L. (Ruth Armour) Kamen, Englewood, N. J. (until 1960; her gift to MMA)
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