Charles Bittinger (American, 1879-1970), Bibliothèque du Dauphin, Versailles

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Lot Description

Charles Bittinger (American, 1879-1970)

Bibliothèque du Dauphin, Versailles
Signed, inscribed, and dated "C Bittinger/Versailles 1906" l.l., titled on a presentation plaque.
Oil on canvas, 32 x 26 in. (81.5 x 65.7 cm), in a Newcomb-Macklin frame.
Condition: Minor paint losses along left edge, revarnished in July 2005 according to a note on the foam core backing.

Provenance: Property of the Saint Louis Art Museum, sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund.

Exhibitions: Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915, Fine Arts Department, Item 2311, as The Library of the Prince: Versailles; possibly also exhibited at The Copley Society of Boston, date unknown.

N.B. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition world's fair was held in San Francisco February 20-December 4, 1915. Conceived to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, it also provided the city the opportunity to showcase its recovery from the 1906 earthquake. Four paintings by Bittinger were included in the exhibition for the Department of Fine Arts, and he was awarded a Silver Medal. (1) A presentation plaque recording the Silver Medal is affixed to the back of the frame of this painting, suggesting this work was the actual medal winner, but the catalog of the exposition did not include a list of medals awarded for specific works. In the short biographical paragraph devoted to Bittinger it says only that he won a Silver Medal.

1.) J.E.D. Trask & J.N. Laurvik, Editors, Catalogue de Luxe of the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Volume II (San Francisco: Paul Edler and Company, 1915) p. 290.

Condition

Condition: Framed dimensions are 38 5/8 x 32 5/8 x 1 5/8 in.
Frame stamped "NEWCOMB-MACKLIN CO./CHICAGO & NEW YORK" in two places on the reverse. Stretcher inscribed with the artist's name and his New York address and also with the title "Versailles." There is a fragmentary exhibition label affixed to the stretcher, but it has been effaced.

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