Portrait de jeune fille

Details

Henri Delavallée (1862-1943)
Portrait de jeune fille
signed and dated 'H.Delavallée 88' (lower right)
oil on canvas
16¼ x 13in. (41.2 x 33cm.)
Painted in 1888

Provenance

Mélanie Rouat, Riec-sur-Belon, by whom acquired from the artist in 1939.

Literature

Y. Dautier, A propos de quelques collections bretonnes. Sérusier et les peintres du groupe de Pont-Aven, Rennes, 1962, p. 11.

Exhibited

Quimper, Rennes & Nantes, L'Ecole de Pont-Aven dans les collections publiques et privées de Bretagne, July 1978-March 1979, no. 23 (illustrated in the catalogue).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Mélanie Rouat (1878-1955) opened an inn in Riec-sur-Belon, near Pont-Aven, where local painters and, later, Parisian tourists enjoyed her famous hospitality and excellent cuisine. She often received works from the artists she housed and fed as payment in kind and built up, over the years, an astonishing collection of works by artists such as Gauguin, Sérusier, Bernard, Delavallée and Kisling to decorate the walls of her hostel.

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