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Bouguereau completed Première rêverie in early 1889, naming it Le chant de l'Amour (The Song of Love). In May of that year the work was sold to the art dealership Tooth and Sons and renamed Première rêverie. That August the dealership sold the painting to a person named Groves. The painting was later gifted to the New Orleans Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. Chapman H. Hyams; the museum's catalogue lists it as Whisperings of Love.  Eyewitness Books' guide to New Orleans lists the painting as one of the top ten exhibits at the museum, and Christie's considers the work one of Bouguereau's more important contemporary paintings.In late 1889, Gustave Doyen, with some input from the Bouguereau, completed a reduction of Première rêverie; this work, measuring 101 by 58 centimetres (40 in × 23 in), is now housed at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. A print of Bougureau's painting, produced by John Douglas Miller, is held at the Art Institute of Chicago under the title The First Whisper of Love; this title had previously been attached to the reduction when it was sold by Tooth and Sons.In the catalogue raisonné for Bouguereau, Première rêverie has number 1889/06, whereas the reduction is listed as number 1889/06A.
Gustave Doyen Art Institute of Chicago John Douglas Miller Christie's New Orleans Museum of Art catalogue raisonné Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens painting Chapman H. Hyams Eyewitness Books