"La Bernoise," after Dagnan-Bouveret

Henry Wolf

The painting that Wolf faithfully copied, "Le Bernoise," was executed in 1887 by the artist Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret his wife, Anne-Marie Dagan-Bouveret (née Walter), who was a frequent subject of his. The painting was owned by the esteemed collector John G. Johnson of Philadelphia, and was among the collection of 1,400 paintings bequeathed to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Johnson's will in 1914.

In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver Henry Wolf won the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco. The Wolf prints we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many, such as this, were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE, with his return address and the edition size and original price of $18.00 noted.