Gabrielle Cot
{{Short description|1890 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau}}
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| image_file = File:William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Gabrielle Cot - Sotheby's.jpg
| image_size = 354px
| title = Gabrielle Cot
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| artist = William-Adolphe Bouguereau
| year = 1890
| medium = Oil on canvas
| height_metric = 45.5
| width_metric = 38
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| city = Tokyo
| museum = Iuchi Collection
On loan to the National Museum of Western Art
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Gabrielle Cot ({{IPA|fr|ɡabʁijɛl kɔt}}){{Cite journal|title=Pierre-Auguste Cot's The Storm|author=Rubin, James Henry|year=1979|journal=Metropolitan Museum Journal|volume=14|pages=191–200|doi=10.2307/1512746|jstor=1512746|s2cid=193079291}} is an oil-on-canvas portrait painted in 1890 by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Gabrielle Cot was the daughter of the French painter Pierre Auguste Cot, the most notable pupil of Bouguereau. This painting was one of the few non-commissioned portraits he ever painted.{{cite web|url=http://allart.biz/photos/image-603.html|title=Gabrielle Cot|website=allart.biz|accessdate=|archive-date=2016-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119062008/http://allart.biz/photos/image-603.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://artrenewal.org/pages/artwork.php?artworkid=1092&size=huge|title=Artrenewal; William Adolphe Bouguereau (William Bouguereau) (1825-1905) Portrait de Gabrielle Cot|publisher=artrenewal.org|accessdate=}}{{cite web|url=http://books0977.tumblr.com/post/109343862827/portrait-de-gabrielle-cot-1890-william|title=portrait-de-gabrielle-cot|publisher=books0977.tumblr.com|accessdate=}}
Background
Initially the work was started as a study for another painting but Bouguereau was enthralled by Gabrielle Cot's charm and beauty, so he decided to paint a portrait of her.{{sfnp|Williams|2015|p=1891|ps=}}
Description
The painting measures {{convert|45.7|by|38.1|cm|in}} and bears the artist's signature, W-BOUGUEREAU, and the date of 1890 in the lower left corner.{{r|Sothebys}}
Exhibitions and provenance
The painting was gifted to Madame Duret by Bouguereau on the occasion
of Gabrielle's marriage. Gabrielle married to Louis Zislin in 1890. The painting was exhibited at the Cercle de L'union Artistique in Paris during 1891.{{r|Sothebys}} It remained in Duret's family passing down via inheritance. It was sold for the first time on November 10, 1998 in New York at Sotheby's without knowing its traceability and how it arrived in the United States.
Contrary to the catalog raisonné, this painting was never sold at Phillips on May 15, 1983; it was exhibited a year later in 1999 at the Newington Cropsey Foundation.{{r|Sothebys}} It has been deposited at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo since September 22, 2022.{{Cite web |title=Portrait of Gabrielle Cot{{!}}William Adolphe Bouguereau {{!}} {{!}} 収蔵作品 |url=https://collection.nmwa.go.jp/DEP.2022-0020.html |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=国立西洋美術館 |language=ja}}
References
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Bibliography
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- {{citation |last=Williams |first=Sarah |title=William Bouguereau: Paintings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlQ4BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1891 |year=2015 |publisher=Sarah Williams | isbn=978-605-03-4967-2}}
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External links
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- [https://thebeautifulblogblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/portrait-de-gabrielle-cot-by-william-adolphe-bouguereau/ Portrait of Gabrielle by William-Adolphe Bouguereau]
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