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BURTHE, Leopold

New Orleans, Louisiana, 1823 - Paris, France, 1860

Ophelia

n° 881-1-4

1852

Oil on canvas

H: 0, 624 m.; W: 1, 005 m.

Poitiers, Musée Sainte Croix

Signed and dated lower left: Leopold - Burthe / MDCCCLII

Painting

From 1787 to 1865

Historical

Donated to the Musée municipal des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Poitiers, as directed in the will of the artist's sister, Marie-Marguerite Foucher de Circé, in 1881.

Bibliography

N. Fetu, p. 51-52, 1858;

P.A. Brouillon, n° 24-310, p. 35;

H. Perrault, 1930, n° 24, p. 290;

Vergnet-Ruiz et Laclotte, 1962, p. 230 (donné par erreur à Chassériau);

B. Gaudichon, 1984-86, n° 9, p. 238, repr. p. 235;

Th. Thomas, 1984, p. 11;

B. Gaudichon, 1986, dact., n° 63, p. 84-86, repr.