Focus on Gabrielle Cot and analyze the Exhibitions and provenance.
The painting was gifted to Madame Duret by Bouguereau  on the occasion
of Gabrielle's marriage. Gabrielle married an architect named Zilin in 1890. The painting was exhibited at the Cercle de L'union Artistique in Paris during 1891. It remained in Duret's family passing down via inheritance. It was sold for the first time on November 10, 1998 in New York at Sotheby's without knowing its traceability and how it arrived in the United States.
Contrary to the catalog raisonné, this painting was never sold at Philpps on May 15, 1983; it was exhibited a year later in 1999 at the Newington Cropsey Foundation.
Newington Cropsey Foundation