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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 2704666, member: 1476&quot;]Isn&#039;t that sweet?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As late as the 1960s...&nbsp; artists were allowed to set up easels in museum galleries and copy paintings.&nbsp; Artists also reproduced paintings from b&amp;w prints.&nbsp; Comparing yours to the original which is, as I&#039;m sure you know, in the Syracuse University Art Museum, I see a bit of artistic license so a b&amp;w print may more likely have been the source.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect you have a period souvenir from France,&nbsp; framed at Washington&#039;s carriage trade department store some time after 1890 (the year the work was painted.)&nbsp; Bouguereau was, of course, an extremely well-known and well-regarded (Academy) painter in his time so would have been a fashionable purchase.&nbsp; I would think it dates to the first couple decades of the 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Comparison between originals and copies is always so helpful to train the eye and see why great painters are considered such.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Debora</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]274640[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]274642[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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