Object number2015.5.3
La fontaine de jouvence (The Fountain of Youth)
Artist
Eugène Louis Lami
(French, 1800 - 1890)
CultureFrench
MediumWatercolor, gouache, black ink, and graphite on thin paperboard
DimensionsSheet: 10 3/8 x 19 in. (26.35 x 48.26 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, bequest of Mrs. T. Catsby Jones and gift of Mary Turlay Robinson, by exchange
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (recto, LRC): E. L.
Catalogue raisonnéPaul-André Lemoisne, L'ouevre d'Eugène Lami (1800-1890); Essai d'un catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1914), p. 417.ProvenanceCommissioned by Anatole Demidoff (1813-1870) for the sries Historie de mon temps by Lami; Vente San Donato, Paris Hotel Drouot, 2 July 1875, no. 36; Collection Odon de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Chateau de Courtanvaux; estate of Comtesse Odon de Montesquiou-Fezensac; Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 9-10 December 1929, no. 5 with illustration; Collection of Raoul de Montesquiou; Vente anonyme, Paris, Hotel Drouot (Madame Roger Langaz), 27 November 1942, no. 20, ill. p. 7.Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryTème exposition, Société des aquarellistes français, Paris, 1885, no. 4; Poughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC (Focus Gallery), Vassar College, "Accessorizing Paris: Fashion and Art in the Nineteenth Centruy," 16 January - April 8, 2018.
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