The Sirens
1882
Artists
Dimensions
32.8 x 20.9 cm (12 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Sold by the artist to Édouard Saisset, November 9, 1881 (Fr 2,000; with "Eve"); purchased from him by Charles Hayem, May 12, 1882; purchased from him by Alfred Baillehache (Fr 4,000); Galerie Brame, Paris, purchased from them by (?) Gillet, Lyon 1913 (Fr 7,000); bought back by Brame, 1914; acquired from Scott and Fowles, New York, by Grenville L. Winthrop, October 1923 ($1,350); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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