96Т. Sleeping Nymph [circa 1865-1873]
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96Т. Sleeping Nymph [circa 1865-1873]
References
The "Minerva" calendar for 1908, il. p. 277. Catalog of the Grigorescu exhibition, May 11, 1887, Bucharest, Royal Court Typograpgy F. Gobl Fiii, 1887, no. 14. Ionel Jianu, Grigoresco, Foreign Language Editions of the Romanian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Foreign, Bucharest, 1956 (Nude lying down, il. p.168). N. Petrașcu, N.Grigorescu, Tip. Bucovina, Bucharest 1930 (Sleeping, plate 20). A.Vlahuță, The Painter N. I. Grigorescu. His life and his work, Edition of the School Houses, Socec, Bucharest 1910, p.126; cat. p. 258.
oil on canvas, 46.5 x 76 cm, signed lower right, in red, "Grigorescu"
Research information
The work is classified in the Treasury category of the National Cultural Mobile Heritage, by order of the Minister of Culture no. 2628 from 05.10.2011. The work was part of the famous collection of Ernest Edmond Goodwin, banker, deputy director of the Bank of Romania until 1910. The work participated in the second personal exhibition of Nicolae Grigorescu, 1887, Eforiei Palace, mentioned in chapter XI of the monograph "Life and work of the painter N.I. Grigorescu", Alexandru Vlahuță, SOCEC, 1910, pp. 122-129. At the beginning of the 20th century, the work was exhibited truncated, approx. 16 cm length of the left surface of the painting, representing the dark corner of the forest, being folded on the chassis; a subsequent restoration of the work has recovered this classicist portion of the work, returning it to circulation in the format conceived by Grigorescu. The work participated in the Exposition Internationale et Universelle, 1889, Paris, Beaux-Arts, Palais du Champ de Mars; and it's reproduced in the exhibition catalog at cat.10. The work is reproduced in Minerva's Calendar, 1908, under the title "Study". The work is reproduced in the monograph "Nicolae Grigorescu", Nicolae Petrașcu, Bucharest, 1930, under the title "Sleeping", plate 20, page 85. The work is reproduced in "Masters of Romanian Painting. Grigorescu", Ionel Jianu, Foreign Languages Publishing House of the Romanian Institute for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Bucharest, page 168, under the title "Nude." A variant of the work, dated 1870, is displayed at the National Art Museum of Romania and is reproduced in "Repertoire of Modern Romanian Painting, 19th Century", Vol. III, I-Z, Costina Anghe, Mariana Vida, National Art Museum of Romania, Gallery of Modern Romanian Art, Bucharest, 2018.
PROVENANCE
the artist Nicolae Grigorescu's collection; Ernest Edmond Goodwin's collection, Bucharest, probably until the autumn of 1910; probably to Prince Nicolae Gh. Cantacuzino (1868-1944), officer, senator, son of Gh. Gr. Cantacuzino Nababul;
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