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Confidences

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Spanish, 1841–1920

Confidences

c. 1870

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (92 x 73 cm) Frame: 42 3/4 x 36 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (108.6 x 93.3 x 4.4 cm)
Object Number 1955.798
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, Confidences, c. 1870, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.798

Select Bibliography

Cunningham, Charles C., et al. The Elegant Academics: Chroniclers of 19th-Century Parisian Life. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Feeney, Maura. A La Mode: Women's Fashions in French Art, 1850-1900. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982. Elizabeth Du Gué Trapier.. Catalogue of Paintings (19th and 20th Centuries) in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America. I.. 1932.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Marie Simon.. Mode et Peinture: Le Second Empire et l'impressionnisme.. Paris: Hazan Editions.. 1995.. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

[Durand-Ruel, Paris, sold to Lambert]; Catholina Lambert, Paterson, New Jersey (probably after 1903–16, his sale, American Art Association, New York, 21 Feb. 1916, no. 72, as Confidences, sold to Wilbur); James B. Wilbur Jr., Manchester, Vt. (1916–d. 1929); Mrs. James B. Wilbur Jr., Manchester, Vt., and New York, his wife, by descent (1929–33, sale, American Art Association, New York, 14 Dec. 1933, no. 57, as Confidences ["La Toilette"]); private collection, New York; sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 24 Nov. 1939, no. 78, as Confidences ("La Toilette), sold to Durand-Ruel; [Durand-Ruel, New York, 1939–40, sold to Clark, 13 Mar. 1940, as La toilette]; Robert Sterling Clark (1940–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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