PASCAL ADOLPHE JEAN DAGNAN-BOUVERET. 1852-1929

136 THE NUPTIAL BENEDICTION. 1880—81

Oil on canvas. 99 X 143 cm. Inv. No 3481 Signed and dated: P.A.J. Dagnan-B' Corre 1880— 1881

On the reverse, on the right, is the inscription in black paint: La figure de la Mariee est le portrait de ma femme. . . P. A. J. Dagnan

Provenance: until 1892 The S. Tretyakov Collection, Moscow; 1892—1930 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; 1930 The Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; 1930—48 The

Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1882 Paris (Salon); 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 29; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 52; 1960 Moscow, Cat., pp. 4, 13

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 46; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 65; Опись галереи Третьяковых 1894, No 12; Кат. галереи Третьяковых 1911, No 84; Кат. галереи Третьяковых 1917, No 3948; Reau 1929, No 477

136 THE NUPTIAL BENEDICTION. 1880—81