Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower right): R B
Gallery Label This painting, made from life about 1856, depicts a dog that belonged to a gentleman known as the Vicomte d'Armaille. It is one of Bonheur's numerous portraits of hunting dogs and pets.
Provenance H. D. Newcomb, Louisville (by 1867–d. 1874; his estate sale, Leavitt's, New York, December 21, 1877, no. 5, for $2,700 to Wolfe); Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York (1877–d. 1887)
Exhibition History New York. National Academy of Design. "Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition," December 3, 1883–January 1, 1884, no. 18 (as "Staghound," lent by Miss Catharine Wolfe).
Tulsa. Philbrook Art Center. "Animals in Art," October 3–December 4, 1944, no. 3 (as "Limier-Briquet Hound").
New York. School of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Museum. "Les Animaliers and Animals in Early Nineteenth-Century French Art," April 8–27, 1985, no catalogue.
Southampton, N.Y. Parrish Art Museum. "In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the 1883 Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition," June 29–September 1, 1986, no. 6.
New York. National Academy of Design. "In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the 1883 Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition," September 18–December 7, 1986, no. 6.
Dallas. Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University. "Rosa Bonheur," September 8–October 22, 1989, no. 12.
Washington. National Museum of Women in the Arts. "Rosa Bonheur," December 12, 1989–March 11, 1990, no. 12.
References Catalogue of Modern Paintings in the Possession of H. D. Newcomb, Esq. Louisville, 1867, pp. 13–14.Independent 39 (November 24, 1887), p. 9.Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings . New York, 1892, vol. 1, p. 177.Rosa Bonheur: Sa vie, son oeuvre . Paris, 1908, p. 425, ill. p. 339 [English ed., "Rosa Bonheur: The Artist's (Auto)biography," Ann Arbor, 1997, p. 282].French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 2, New York, 1966, p. 164, ill.Rosa Bonheur: With a Checklist of Works in American Collections . Philadelphia, 1982, p. 56.in Maureen C. O'Brien. In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the 1883 Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition . Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, N.Y., 1986, pp. 24, 32, 95, 134, no. 6, ill. p. 134 and colorpl. III.in Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) . Exh. cat., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. Bordeaux, 1997, pp. 150–51.Apollo 147 (March 1998), p. 55 n. 28.Dog Painting: The European Breeds . Woodbridge, England, 2000, p. 320, colorpl. 471.
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