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Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884)

Lot 55
20.10.2022 18:00UTC -05:00
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$ 500 000
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ID 819753
Lot 55 | Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 800 000
Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884)

Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt

inscribed, signed and dated 'A SARAH BERNHARDT/JULES BASTIEN=LEPAGE. 1879' (upper left)

oil on canvas, in the original Salon frame

The painting: 17 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (43.5 x 34.6 cm.)

Overall: 32 x 28 3/4 in. (81.3 x 73 cm.)





Provenance

with Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, by 1885.

Guillaume 'Willy' Blumenthal (1845-1936), Paris, by 1889.

His sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 29 November 1935, lot 29.

Mme. Cornareanu.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 November 1980, lot 45, as Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt.

Joey Tanenbaum (d. 2022) and Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 1995, lot 274, as The Sarah Bernhardt Portrait.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

C. Tardieu, ‘La Peinture au Salon de Paris,’ L’Art, vol. xvii, Paris, 1879, pp. 207-208, as Portrait de Mlle Sarah Bernhardt.

C. Tardieu, ‘La Peinture au Salon de Paris,’ L’Art, vol. xviii, Paris, 1879, p. 62, as Portrait de Mlle Sarah Bernhardt.

E. Véron, ‘La Peinture au Salon de Paris,’ L'Art, vol. xvii, Paris, 1879, pp. 146-148, as Portrait de Mlle Sarah Bernhardt.

A. Baignères, 'Le Salon de 1879,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. xix, 1 June 1879, p. 558, illustrated with the engraving, vol. xxxiv, 1 December 1879, as Portrait de Mlle Sarah Bernhardt.

E. Guillaume, ‘Le Salon de 1879,’ Revue des Deux Mondes, vol. xxxiv, Paris, 1 July 1879, p. 197.

P. Burty, ‘Le Salon de 1879’, La République Française, Paris, 27 May 1879, p. 3 and 15 June 1879, p. 3.

P. Burty, ‘Le Salon de 1880,' L'Art, Paris, vol. xxi, 1880, p. 178-180, as Mlle Sarah Bernhardt.

P. de Chennevières, 'Le Salon de 1880: deixième article,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. xxi, 1 January 1880, p. 512.

P. Hourie, 'Bastien LePage,' L'Estafette, Paris, 22 March 1880, p. 2.

J. Forbes-Robertson, 'The Salon of 1881,' Magazine of Art, vol. iv, London, 1881, p. 384.

J. Forbes-Robertson, 'The Paris Salon of 1881,' Illustrated London News, London, 7 May 1881, p. 451, as Sarah Bernhardt.

E. About, Quinze journe´es au Salon de peinture et de sculpture, Paris, 1883, p. 15.

J.-K. Huysmans, ‘Le Salon de 1879,' L’Art Moderne, Paris, 1883, pp. 72-73, as Mlle Bernhardt.

Farfadet, 'La vie de Paris,' Supplement a l'indépendence Belge, Paris, 14 December 1884.

E. Ducros, 'Bastien-Lepage,' L'Artiste, Paris, 1884, p. 463.

M. Gerard, 'Le salon de 1884,' Le Petit Nord, Lille, 3 June 1884, n.p.

G. Dargenty, ‘Bastien-Lepage’, L'Art, Paris, vol. xxxviii, 1885, p. 166.

E. Ducros, ‘L’Exposition de l’oeuvre de Bastien-Lepage,’ L'Artiste, vol. 121, Paris, 1885, pp. 391-392.

L. de Fourcaud, ‘Jules Bastien-Lepage,’ Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. xxxi, 1885, pp. 114, 266-267, as Portrait de Mme Sarah Bernhardt.

A. Hustin, 'Bastien-Lepage,' L'Art, Paris, vol. xxxviii, 1885, p. 14, 17.

A. Theuriet, Jules Bastien-Lepage: l'homme et l'artiste, Paris, March 1885, p. 41.

A. Meynell, ‘Madame Sarah Bernhardt,’ The Art Journal, London, 1888, p. 139.

C. Bigot, Peintres français contemporains, Paris, 1888, p. 176.

P. Mantz, 'Le Peinture Française,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. ii, 1 October 1889, p. 365, as Portrait de Mme Sarah Bernhardt.

A. Dayot, Un Siècle d’Art. Notes sur la peinture française à l’exposition centennale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1890, p. 118, as Portrait de Mme Sarah Bernhardt.

F. Bournand, Histoire de l'art en France, Paris, 1891, p. 319, as Mme Sarah-Bernhardt.

A. Theuriet, Jules Bastien-Lepage and His Art, A Memoir, London and New York, 1892, p. 49, illustrated with the engraving, as Sarah Bernhardt.

J. Cartwright, Jules Bastien-Lepage, London, 1894, pp. 44-48, 76, illustrated with the engraving, p. 47, as Sarah Bernhardt.

A. Girodie, Les Contemporains No 420 – Bastien-Lepage, Paris, 28 October 1900, p. 12, as Mme Sarah Bernhardt.

Pierre Lafitte et cie, ed., Bastien-Lepage: huit reproductions facsimile en couleurs, Paris, pp. 45-46.

U. Thieme and F. Becker, 'Bastien-Lepage,' Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Munich, vol. iii, 1909, pp. 25-6.

G. C. Williamson, Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, London, 1909, vol. i, p. 94, as Portrait of Madame Sarah Bernhardt.

Sergines, ‘Les Échos de Paris,' Les Annales politiques et littéraires, Paris, no. 1505, 28 April 1912, p. 366.

F. Crastre, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Paris, 1914, pp. 47-48, as Madame Sarah Bernhardt.

R. Peyre, Histoire Generale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1921, p. 776, as Sarah Bernhardt.

J. Baschet, ‘Les "Cent Portraits" au Cercle Interalliée,' L'Illustration, 13 May 1922, pp. 429, 470, illustrated.

J. Vallery-Radot, 'Les arts au théatre,' l'Art vivant, Paris, 1 January 1926, p. 12.

L. Dimier, Histoire de la Peinture Française au XIXe Siecle, Paris, 1926, p. 282, illustrated with the engraving.

W. G. Robertson, Time Was, The Reminiscences of W Graham Robertson, London, September 1931, p. 112.

P. d'Espezel, 'L'art français du temps présent,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, January 1932, p. 99, fig. 2, illustrated, as Sarah Bernhardt.

'Les Ventes,' Le Bulletin de l'art, Paris, November 1935, p. 410.

L. Gerbe, ‘La peinture française-Les rustiques, Bastien-Lepage…’ Le Peuple, Paris, 14 April 1937, p. 4.

G. Hanotaux, 'Une Exposition Bastien-Lepage à Nice,’ Journal des Lorrains à Paris, Paris, 20 March 1939, p. 15.

K. Preston, ed., Letters from Graham Robertson, London, 1953, pp. 362, 513.

J.-P. Crespelle, ed., Les Maîtres de la Belle Epoque, Paris, 1966, p. 45, fig. 58, illustrated.

W. S. Feldman, The Life and Work of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1973, pp. 202-208, fig. 97, illustrated, as Portrait de Mme Sarah Bernhardt.

E. Be´ne´zit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, … 1911, Paris 1976, vol. i, p. 502.

K. McConkey, ‘The Bouguereau of the Naturalists, Bastien-Lepage and British Art’, Art History, London, vol. 1, no. 3, September 1978, p. 374, as Sarah Bernhardt.

The Apollo, London, November 1980, p. 28, illustrated, as Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt.

C. Debize and P. Pagotta, Jules Bastien-Lepage: Damvillers 1848-Paris 1884, Bar-le-Duc, 1984, pp. 55, 125, illustrated with the engraving.

K. McConkey, ‘After Holbein: A Study of Jules Bastien-Lepage’s Portrait of the Prince of Wales,’ Arts Magazine, New York, vol. 59, no. 2, October 1984, pp. 104-5, fig. 10, illustrated, as Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt.

M.-M. Aubrun, Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884): Catalogue raisonné de l'Œuvre, Paris, 1985, pp. 166-167, no. 234, illustrated, pp. 55 and 167.

K. McConkey, 'Edwardian Portraits, Images of an Age of Opulence,' Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1987, p. 72, illustrated, p. 73, as Sarah Bernhardt.

B. Ponton, Jules Bastien-Lepage: peintre lorrain, Charenton-le-Pont, 1999, p. 42.

C. Denney, At the Temple of Art: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890, Madison, NJ, 2000, pp. 161, 164-5, 190, as Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt.

K. McConkey, Memory and Desire, British and Irish Art at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT, 2002, pp. 53-54, fig. 25, illustrated, as Sarah Berhardt.

J. Thuillier, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Metz, 2005, p. 66.

K. McConkey, ‘“Un petit cercle de thuriféraires” Bastien-Lepage et la Grande-Bretagne,’ 48/14, La revue du Musée d’Orsay, Paris, no. 24, 2007, p. 21, fig. 3, illustrated.

J. Thuillier, Pour le plaisir: Rubens, Fragonard, Bastien-Lepage, Dijon, 2018, pp. xxi, 311-314, illustrated with the engraving.





Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1879, no. 165, as Portrait de Mlle Sarah Bernhardt.

London, Grosvernor Gallery, Summer 1880, no. 9, as Mademoiselle Sarah Bernhardt.

Paris, Société Philanthropique, L'école des Beaux-Arts, Portraits du siècle (1783-1883), 25 April 1883, no. 235, as Mme Sarah Bernhardt.

Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Hôtel de Chimay, Jules Bastien-Lepage, March-April 1885, no. 90, as Portrait de Mme Bernhardt.

Paris, Exposition universelle, 1889, no. 15, as Portrait de Mme Sarah Bernhardt.

Paris, Union Interalliée, Cent Portraits, 15 May-15 June 1922, no. 4, pl. 6, illustrated with the engraving, as Portrait de Mme SARAH BERNHARDT.

London, Royal Academy, The Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, January-March 1932, no. 483, as Sarah Bernhardt.

Paris, Académie Française, Troisième centenaire de l'Académie Française, 1937, no. 105.

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Sarah Bernhardt and Her Times, 13 November-28 December 1984, pp. 7, 97, 151, illustrated, as Portrait of Sarah.

New York, The Jewish Museum, Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama, 2 December 2005-2 April 2006, pp. 120-122, fig. 24, illustrated, as Sarah Bernhardt.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1848-1884, 6 March-13 May 2007; also Verdun, Centre mondial de la paix, 14 June-16 September 2007, pp. 110-111, no. 26, illustrated, as Sarah Bernhardt.

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, on long-term loan, August 2008-January 2022.

Artist:Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848 - 1884)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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