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The Salins industrialist Alfred Bouvet purchased two Courbet landscapes and commissioned this portrait of his daughter, then aged three. She is holding a toy sheep on a wheeled base. Courbet seldom attempted portraits of children and remarked: 'It is the hardest thing you can imagine: a three year-old girl, as fair as tow, as white as milk and, by Jove, extremely pretty'.

National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff

Title

Beatrice Bouvet (b.1861)

Date

1864

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 91.9 x W 73.2 cm

Accession number

NMW A 2447

Acquisition method

purchased from A. Tooth and Sons Ltd, 1976

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Label: 8, BALI AC..., GEURTS...D'ART Rue Seglier 9 PARIS BRUXELLES Monsieur 108 Paiseux (?) Stamp on stretcher: DOUANES PARIS EXPOSITION Label: 45..223 Label: 10 Label: Caisseui On stretcher: Label fragment - ...Bou... Label on file: ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN 105 PICCADILLY LONDON WIV OAU 01 629 9495 EXHIBITION - GUSTAVE COURBET 18

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