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| Keywords: Giovanni Boldini, The Dispatch-Bearer.jpg Artwork 1879 Oil on wood 16 3/4 x 13 1/2 in 42 5 x 34 3 cm Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art Hidden left References Arthur Baignères « Le Salon de 1879 Premier article » Gazette des beaux-arts 2nd ser 19 June 1879 p 572 comments that it is le fac-similé fait art J -K Huysmans Le Salon de 1879 Le Voltaire June 10 1879 reprinted in Huysmans L'Art moderne Paris 1883 p 52 The Art Treasures of America reprint 1977 New York 1879 vol 2 p 128; vol 3 pp 110 “11 ill calls it Delivering the Dispatch and Bearer of Dispatches in the Fiske collection; remarks that it is a direct challenge to Meissonier Bryson Burroughs Bequest of the Late Mrs Martha T Fiske Collord Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 3 November 1908 Harry B Wehle The Metropolitan Museum of Art A Catalogue of Italian Spanish and Byzantine Paintings New York 1940 p 302 ill Emilia Cardona Boldini Boldini nel suo tempo Milan 1951 p 73 as Portalettere a cavallo Carlo L Ragghianti Ettore Camesasca in L'opera completa di Boldini Milan 1970 p 96 no 64 ill calls it Dragone e Portinaio La staffetta; Il portaordini ; notes that a reproduction of this painting appeared in the Revue illustrée of 1887; remarks that Boldini considered it one of the best paintings from his first years in Paris Bianca Doria Giovanni Boldini catalogo generale dagli archivi Boldini Milan 2000 vol 1 colorpl 120; vol 2 unpaginated no 120 ill calls it La staffetta and dates it 1879 Piero Dini and Francesca Dini Catalogo ragionato della pittura a olio con un'ampia selezione di pastelli e acquerelli Giovanni Boldini 1842 “1931 Catalogo ragionato 3 Turin 2002 part 1 pp 156 “57 no 274 ill Piero Dini and Francesca Dini La Vita e l'iter-artistico Giovanni Boldini 1842 “1931 Catalogo Ragionato 1 Turin 2002 p 171 Rossella Campana in Boldini Exh cat Palazzo Zabarella Padua Venice 2005 pp 158 “59 no 51 ill color Francesca Dini in Boldini Exh cat Palazzo Zabarella Padua Venice 2005 p 28 Barbara Guidi in Sarah Lees Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris Exh cat Palazzo dei Diamanti Ferrara Williamstown 2009 p 106 notes that this picture marks a stylistic turning point in Boldini's art and presages the affinity for seventeenth-century Dutch and Spanish painting that would characterize his work in the decade to come Sarah Lees Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris Exh cat Palazzo dei Diamanti Ferrara Williamstown 2009 pp 38 “42 48 51 65 nn 68 “70 p 204 colorpl 19 dates it about 1879; comments that the theme of this picture is looking emphasized by the two pairs of eyeglasses in the optician's shop behind the horseman; notes that it was the first painting exhibited by Boldini at the Paris Salon; discusses the influence of Meissonier Fortuny Degas and Caillebotte on this picture object history Josiah M Fiske New York by 1879 “d 1892 ; his widow Martha T Fiske Collord New York 1892 “d 1908 exhibition history Hidden left Exhibition History Paris Salon May 12 “June 1879 no 327 as La dépêche Youngstown Ohio location unknown AFA circulating exhibition 1919 Charlottesville University of Virginia AFA circulating exhibition 1919 Richmond location unknown AFA circulating exhibition 1919 Fort Worth Carnegie Public Library AFA circulating exhibition 1920 New York Century Association Virtuosity in Painting Works by Fortuny Boldini Domingo Blum Chase Others January 12 “27 1935 no 4 Wilmington N C Wilmington WPA Museum of Art Paintings by Old Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art April 2 “May 4 1941 no 1 New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh as Critic and Self-Critic October 30 1973 “January 6 1974 no 17 Padua Palazzo Zabarella Boldini January 15 “June 12 2005 no 51 Rome Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Boldini June 23 “September 25 2005 no 51 Williamstown Mass Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris February 14 “April 25 2010 no 19 as The Dispatch Bearer credit line Bequest of Martha T Fiske Collord in memory of her first husband Josiah M Fiske 1908 435694 Inscription Signed lower left Boldini “; inscribed beside building entrance 12; on shop signs OPTICIEN F GLACE A R HOTEL / VAR; on messenger's bag Garde Republicaine location Paris accession number 08 136 12 PD-old Mounted regiment of the Garde républicaine Paintings of Paris by Giovanni Boldini 1879 paintings Horses in art of France People at doors in art Italian paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 19th-century genre paintings French army 1870-1914 Paintings of Paris streets 1879 in Paris | ||||
