The Legend of the Wolves

1890s

Rosa Bonheur

Artist, French, 1822 - 1899

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal with stumping and erasing, black chalk, and pastel on blue wove paper, edge mounted to paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 59.9 x 80.7 cm (23 9/16 x 31 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.128.2

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Bonheur sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 5-8 June 1900, no. 1110); (Schweitzer Gallery, New York); (Shepherd Gallery, New York); purchased by Christian Humann, 1971; The Christian Humann Foundation, Paris, 1981; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 17.

Bibliography

2022

  • Buratti-Hasan, Sandra and Leïla Jarbouai. Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899). Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 2022: 165, fig. 147.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and dark brown ink: Rosa Bonheur;

Wikidata ID

Q64629737

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