Study of Venus for “Apollo and the Muses in Olympus”

c. 1867

Medium	graphite with touches of white chalk on beige wove paper
Dimensions	18 7/16 x 12 in. (46.8 x 30.5 cm)
Object Number	1955.1578
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Study of Venus for “Apollo and the Muses in Olympus”, c. 1867, graphite with touches of white chalk on beige wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1578

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum.. The Academic Tradition: An Exhibition of 19th-Century French Drawings. June 19-Aug. 11, 1968. Cat. by Sarah Whitfield. John and Mabel Ringling Museum, Sarasota. Au Théâtre. Asolo Opera Guild: Jan. 6-26, 1969. Boime, Albert and Mary Newcome-Schleier. Strictly Academic: Life Drawing in the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition catalogue. Binghamton, NY: State University of New York, Binghamton, 1974. Norton (MA): Watson Gallery, Wheaton College,. Process of Perfection. Nov. 15-Dec. 15, 1976. Philadelphia Museum of Art.. Second Empire: Art in France under Napoleon III. Oct. 1-Nov. 26, 1978; Detroit Institute of Arts, Jan. 15-March 18, 1979; Grand Palais, Paris, May 11-Aug. 13, 1979. Mainardi, Particia. The Persistence of Classicism. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Carl Goldstein.. "Drawing in the Academy.". Art International, XXXI:3 (May-June 1977).. Brown, Hilton. "Academic Art Education and Studio Practices." American Artist 49, no. 511 (February 1985): 4253. Horst Urh.. Lovis Corinth.. Los Angeles: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990.. Goldstein, Carl. Teaching Art: Academies and Schools from Vasari to Albers. Cambridge (England) University Press. 1996. Wissman, Fronia E. Bouguereau. San Francisco: Pomegranate Publications, 1996. Bisbort, Alan. Charles Bragg, The Works: A Retrospective. San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications, 1999. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Adèle de Cassin, Marquise Landolfo Carcano, Paris (her sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 31 May, 1912, no. 99, as Étude de femme nue, sold to Knoedler, Paris, as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1922–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.