WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU | L'AMOUR AU REPOS

Property Sold to Benefit the Daniel M. Tabas Family Foundation
WILLIAM BOUGUEREAU
French
1825 - 1905
L'AMOUR AU REPOS

signed W-BOUGUEREAU- and dated 1904 (lower left)
oil on canvas
36⅝ by 25¼ in.
93 by 64 cm

Condition Report:
The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.:

Not examined out of the frame. This work has been restored and could be hung in its current condition. The canvas is unlined, but the tacking edges have been reinforced to allow for proper stretching on its original stretcher. There is slightly raised cracking to the paint layer, but there is no instability. The cracking has not been retouched.

Originally, Bouguereau painted this figure as Cupid, but subsequently painted over the wings. There are faint pentimenti to the left and right of the hair corresponding to these artist changes.
There are two retouches to small losses in the lower center beneath the figure in the side of the step. The remaining retouches are around the hair of the figure, addressing some thinness to the paint layer. The figure only has two spots of retouching in his left knee.

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Provenance:
Young's Art Gallery, Chicago (acquired in 1954)

Schweitzer Galleries, New York (as Nude Child Seated)

Acquired from the above