Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

Portrait de Paule Gobillard

Details
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Portrait de Paule Gobillard
stamped with initials 'B.M.' (Lugt 388a; lower right)
colored pencils on paper
12¼ x 9 3/8 in. (31.1 x 23.8 cm.)
Drawn circa 1887
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Julie Manet Rouart, Paris (by descent from the above).
Delius Gallery, New York.
The Reader's Digest Collection, New York (1956); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 1998, lot 2.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Selections from the Reader's Digest Collection, 1985-1986, pp. 48-49 (titled Portrait of a Girl).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Berthe Morisot, Impressionist, September 1987-May 1988, no. 72.
Auckland City Art Gallery, The Reader's Digest Collection: Manet to Picasso, 1989, pp. 56-57 (titled Portrait of a Girl).

Lot Essay

The sitter depicted here is Paule Gobillard (1867-1946), the daughter of Yves Morisot and Theodore Gobillard.

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