Aphrodite
c. 1870
Artists
Dimensions
24.4 x 14.7 cm (9 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Provenance
Félix de Romilly, Paris, 1871 (Fr 600); returned to the artist; purchased from the artist through the dealer Beugniet by Alfred Hartmann, Mulhouse, June 1881 (Fr 2,000); his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 12-15, 1899, no. 311 (as "Aphrodite"; Fr 3,500); acquired at that sale by Louis Sarlin; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 2, 1918, no. 79 (as "Naissance de Vénus"); (Alfred?) Beurdeley; Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, January 2, 1922 ($400); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
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