Un salon parisien en 1801

1801

Medium	watercolor on white wove paper
Dimensions	Overall: 14 5/8 x 19 11/16 in. (37.1 x 50 cm)
Object Number	1955.1576
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jean François Bosio, Un salon parisien en 1801, 1801, watercolor on white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1576

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. John and Mabel Ringling Museum, Sarasota. Au Théâtre. Asolo Opera Guild: Jan. 6-26, 1969. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, The Taste of Napoleon: a loan exhibition sponsored by the Society of Fellows, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition catalogue. Kansas City, MO: The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, 1969.
Cunningham, Charles C., et al. The Elegant Academics: Chroniclers of 19th-Century Parisian Life. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Wildenstein & Co., New York.. Consulat-Empire-Restauration. April 21-May 28, 1982.. 1982.. Crane Brinton, John Christopher, and Robert Wolff.. A History of Civilization, 4th ed.. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.. 1971.. Nicole Hubert.. "Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, Peintre Monegasque (1784-1827).. No. 10.. Annales Monegasques.. 1986.. James David Draper.. Thirty Famous People: Drawings by Sergent-Marceau and Bosio, Milan, 1815-1818.. 13.. Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal.. Spring 1979.:pp. 113-130..

Provenance

Dubois du Bais (according to Decloux catalogue); L. Decloux (Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Feb. 14–15, 1898, no. 13, to Mühlbacher {?}); G. Mühlbacher (sale Paris, Georges Petit, May 15–18, 1899, p. 59, no. 88); Neuville & Vivien, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1936 {as Le Chien savant}).