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A Young Girl in Profile

Artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905)

Date1881

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions15 3/4 × 12 3/4 × 3/4 in. (40 × 32.4 × 1.9 cm)
frame: 22 1/8 × 19 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (56.2 × 48.9 × 5.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of Joan Huntley

Object number2021.15.1

On View

On view

Collections

ProvenanceCreated Paris or La Rochelle, 1881; probably collection of the artist; [possibly offered by the artist for Herpin, Rougeron, and Hue sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 23–24, 1881, no. 43, as Une Figure/Tête d’enfant][1]. Private collection, South America, until 2016; [Schiller & Bodo European Paintings, New York, 2016]; Forsum Investment Company on behalf of Dr. Joan Huntley, Chapel Hill, NC, 2016–2019; bequeathed to NCMA, 2019.

[1] Priced at 3500 francs, sold for 4100 francs. The annotated version of the catalogue in BnF Paris specifies the subject as “Une Figure. de fillette”