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376 - GASTON LA TOUCHE (FRENCH 1854-1913)THE VISIT OF THE PRINCESSE ROYALEOil on canvasSigned and inscribed 'StC' (lower right)139 x 156cm (54½ x 61¼in.)Provenance:Mrs Ainsley Wilcox, Buffalo, USA (listed in Mme la Touche's ledger)M. Hull, PittsburghMrs Bertha Stier, Roslyn, New YorkSale, Christie's, New York, 30 October 1992, lot 45, where purchased by the current owner after the saleExhibited:Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 11 June - 13 July 1908, no. 207 (lent by M. Hull, Pittsburgh)Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works by the Members of the Société des Peintres et des Sculpteurs, 16 November - 26 December 1911, no. 83Chicago, Chicago Art Institute, Exhibition of Works by the Members of the Société des Peintres et des Sculpteurs, 4-28 January 1912, no. 85St. Louis, City Art Museum, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by the Members of the Société des Peintres et des Sculpteurs, 4 February 1912, no. 84Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The 16th Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, 25 April - 13 June 1912,no. 168Paris, Musée des Avelines, Gaston La Touche, 1854-1913: The Fantasies of a Belle Époque Painter, 16 October 2014 - 15 March 2015Literature:S. B. Maclennan, Gaston La Touche: A Painter of Belle Époque Dreams, Woodbridge, 2009, pp. 87, 90, 199, ill. p. 88, pl. 70The composition is based on the format for Printemps from La Touche's series of the Quatre Saisons of 1897 painted for the Salon de Mariage in St. Cloud.
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GASTON LA TOUCHE (FRENCH 1854-1913)THE VISIT OF THE PRINCESSE ROYALEOil on canvasSigned and inscribed 'StC' (lower right)139 x 156cm (54½ x 61¼in.)Provenance:Mrs Ainsley Wilcox, Buffalo, USA (listed in Mme la Touche's ledger)M. Hull, PittsburghMrs Bertha Stier, Roslyn, New YorkSale, Christie's, New York, 30 October 1992, lot 45, where purchased by the current owner after the saleExhibited:Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 11 June - 13 July 1908, no. 207 (lent by M. Hull, Pittsburgh)Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works by the Members of the Société des Peintres et des Sculpteurs, 16 November - 26 December 1911, no. 83Chicago, Chicago Art Institute, Exhibition of Works by the Members of the Société des Peintres et des Sculpteurs, 4-28 January 1912, no. 85St. Louis, City Art Museum, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by the Members of the Société des Peintres et des Sculpteurs, 4 February 1912, no. 84Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The 16th Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, 25 April - 13 June 1912,no. 168Paris, Musée des Avelines, Gaston La Touche, 1854-1913: The Fantasies of a Belle Époque Painter, 16 October 2014 - 15 March 2015Literature:S. B. Maclennan, Gaston La Touche: A Painter of Belle Époque Dreams, Woodbridge, 2009, pp. 87, 90, 199, ill. p. 88, pl. 70The composition is based on the format for Printemps from La Touche's series of the Quatre Saisons of 1897 painted for the Salon de Mariage in St. Cloud.
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