The Legend of the Wolves, 1890s

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

Accession Number

1996.128.2

Artists / Makers

Rosa Bonheur (artist) French, 1822 - 1899

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in brush and black ink: Rosa Bonheur

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

Galerie Georges Petit
Humann Foundation, Christian, The
Humann, Christian
Schweitzer Gallery, M.R.
Shepherd Gallery Associates, Inc.

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.