Gaston La Touche
(France 1854–1913)
- Title
- The first born
- Year
- 1883
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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144.8 x 144.8cm stretcher; 167.5 x 167.5 x 7.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. [on box], brown paint "M P Gaston La Touche/ 1883".
- Credit
- Purchased 1888
- Accession number
- 716
- Location
- 19th & 20th c European art
- Provenance (1)
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Paris Salon (France), Paris/France, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Paris Salon 1888.
- Bibliography (13)
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Selina Baring Maclennan (Author), Gaston La Touche: a painter of Belle Epoque dreams, 2009, 24, 28 (colour illus.), 29. pl.11
Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 48.
Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Domain, 1984, (illus.). no catalogue numbers
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 19.
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Victorian Social conscience, Sydney, 1976. cat.no. 46
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Continental Art, Sydney, 1940. cat.no. 85
'Gaston La Touche' by Henry Frantz, The Studio 1914, 1914, 17.
'The Work of G.P.T.' by Gabriel Mourey, The Studio 1899, 1899, 84.
Art Gallery of South Australia (Australia, estab. 1881) (Author), Loan paintings, 1894. cat.no. 6
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1891, 1891.
'The new pictures in the National Gallery' by Sidney Dickinson, pg. 5-6., Illustrated Sydney news 25 Oct 1888, 25 Oct 1888, 5 (illus.).
Gazette des Beaux Arts 01 Jun 1888, 01 Jun 1888.
Paris Salon (France) (Author), 1888 Catalogue illustré du Salon, 1888, 117 (illus.). cat.no. 1504. Entered as 'L'accouchee'.
- Exhibition history (5)
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Paris Salon, 1888, Paris Salon, 1888–1888.
Loan Paintings, National Gallery of South Australia, 01 Sep 1894–30 Sep 1894.
Exhibition of Continental Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov 1940–Dec 1940.
Victorian Social Conscience, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Aug 1976–19 Sep 1976.
Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Nov 1984–May 1985.
