Phryne
Gustave Boulanger (1824 - 1888), Rome, 1850
oil on canvas, 140 cm x 106 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Object number
- s0456S1996
- Dimensions
- 140 cm x 106 cm, 185 cm x 151 cm, 13 cm
- Provenance
- Auction Paris, Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr at Hotel Drouot (Bronzes, tableaux principalement du XIXe siècle), lot 44 (Nu au miroir), sold for FRF 110.000, 5 April 1992; sold by Galerie Elstir, Paris to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 21 February 1996.
- artist
- Gustave Boulanger
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Splendeurs et misères. Images de la prostitution, 1850-1910, 22 September 2015-17 January 2016
Dusseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Diana und Actaeon : der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, 25 October 2008-15 February 2009
London, Tate Britain, Exposed : the Victorian nude, 1 November 2001-27 January 2002
Pasquier, A., Martinez, J.-L., Praxitèle, Paris, 2007, p. 363
Leeuw, Ronald de, Tilborgh, Louis van, Esner, Rachel, Becker, Edwin, Blühm, Andreas, Heugten, Sjraar van, Van Gogh Museum Journal 1996, Zwolle, 1997, p. 195-196
Vergeest, Aukje, The French collection : nineteenth-century French paintings in Dutch public collections, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 82
Thomson, Richard, Houbre, Gabrielle, Bakker, Nienke, Splendeurs & misères : images of prostitution in France, 1850-1910, Paris, 2015, p. 16, 26-27, 232, 285
Leeuw, Ronald de, Gustave Boulanger : Phryne : courtisane en beeldhouwersmodel : Recente aanwinst, p. 10-13