Les enfants Weil au salon (Etude pour Madame Weil et ses enfants)

Prosper-Émile Weil (1873-1963) and his wife Juliette Weil (1885-1976) were notable art collectors and close friends of the artist Édouard Vuillard. Juliette Weil was the daughter of the renowned art collector Adolphe Schloss (1842-1910). Following the German occupation of Paris, Prosper-Émile and Juliette, who were Jewish, hid their art collection at the Château de Chambon, alongside the Schloss collection. Both the Weil and the Schloss collections were seized by Vichy and German officials in August 1943. The Weil collection was transported back to Paris, and many of the Weil artworks were sold through Galerie Raphaël Gérard.