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Femme debout (Standing woman)

Maker

(artist)
1883-1940

Title

Femme debout (Standing woman)

Date of Production

(circa) 1924

Medium

charcoal and red-orange fabricated chalk on wove paper, laid down on a mount (examined under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 55.8 cm
Width: 40.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1932.SC.141

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


Provenance

Léon Marseille (Paris); purchased there by Percy Moore Turner of the Independent Gallery (London), 27 March 1924 (£4, or 250 f); purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), 3 December 1924 (£26 5s, along with D.1932.SC.152 and 144); Courtauld Gift 1932

Exhibition History

Exhibition of drawings by contemporary French artists, Independent Gallery, London, 1924

Literature

Salmon, Dimitri, Percy Moore Turner, Précieux Conseiller de Samuel and Elizabeth Courtauld, Fondation Louis Vuitton 2019
pp. 33n151, 34n153, 35-36, 38, no. 15 on p. 69
ill. no. 15 on p. 69

Salmon, Dimitri, et al., Le Saint Joseph Charpentier de Georges de la Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner, Paris 2017
pp. 404 and 432n486

John House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
no. 102
ill. p. 216 ...More

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 141

Home House Trustees, A catalogue of the pictures and other works of art at Home House, 20 Portman Square, London, London 1935
p. 47, no. 58 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite: “4049”; lower right, graphite, signed, initials in monogram: “JHMarchand”. Verso (hidden under mount, visible via transmitted light): lower left, graphite: "4049"; lower right corner, graphite: “20”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite: “no 4049” and below that “13”.

Collector's mark: none.

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