The Foolish Virgins

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
11/21/1980	Examination	examined for exhibition
1/01/2002	Treatment	examined for exhibition; re-housed; mounted; other
9/25/2016	Examination	examined for exhibition; re-framed

Exhibitions

• A Connoisseur's Portfolio: Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors in the Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1983.
• The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. 2005-2006.
• Gérôme and His Circle: Travel, Art, and Business in the Middle East. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2015-2016.

Provenance William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1885, by purchase [from the artists, George Lucas as agent] [1]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest. [1] See Lucas Diaries, vol. 2, p. 606. "Call from Bida to whom paid (cash) 1500 fs for drawing 'Les vierges folles' for WTWs"

Inscriptions [Signature] In charcoal at lower right: Bida

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, 1885