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TITLE:
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Important Painting
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WORK DATE:
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circa 1865
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MARKINGS:
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Important oil on canvas signed "W. Bouguereau" (lower left)
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SIZE:
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Canvas: 15 1/2" high x 12 1/4" wide; Frame: 24" high x 20 3/4" wide
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REGION:
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French
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DESCRIPTION:
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Offered is an important painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau, titled: Tete d'enfant, etude
The prized painting relates to La grande soeur, a work of 1865 currently in a private collection
Subject in this rare painting is Emilienne Cesil-Biegler, a girl born in 1859 to an unwed mother
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