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McIntosh and Alison McQueen, <EM>Collecting in the Gilded Age: art patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890-1910</EM>, (Pittsburgh, PA: Frick Art &amp; Historical Center; Hanover, N.H.: Distributed by University Press of New England, 1997).","citation":"Gabriel P. Weisberg, DeCourcy E. 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Thanks to his Paris dealer, Goupil et Cie, and to American gallerists such as Michael Knoedler, he was also one of the most popular painters on the American market, where his ethereal, gently erotic scenes featuring contented peasant girls and pretty maidens were particularly prized. Patrons were drawn to his brilliant craftsmanship and the porcelain-like finish of his canvases—what Bouguereau himself called \"the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese or Titian.\" </P></SPAN></SPAN>","remarks":"K4-6 Gallery Rotation January 2016, June 2018"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Art market, Paris; purchase by father of William Hodge Burchfield; by descent to William Hodge Burchfield; 1972 gift by Mrs. William Hodge&nbsp;Burchfield to Princeton University Art Museum.","remarks":"not vetted"}],"datebegin":1895,"sortnumber":"1972    5y","published_date":"2026-06-18 02:00:11.304927","objectid":31950,"dimensions":"46 × 38 cm (18 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.)\r\nframe: 67.3 × 59.4 × 8.3 cm (26 1/2 × 23 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)","on_view":false}