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Young girl sewing

Maker

(artist)
1841-1895

Title

Young girl sewing

Date of Production

1885 - 1888

Medium

graphite with stumping on wove paper, partially framed in graphite

Dimensions

Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 32 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.241

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Rouart Collection, Paris (this information supplied by Dina Vierny; Ernest Rouart (1874-1942) was the son-in-law of Berthe Morisot, so it seems likely he acquired this directly from the artist); purchased from him by Dina Vierny Gallery (Paris), by 1950; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), March 1950 (18,000 francs); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Dina Vierny, Paris, 1950

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 241
pl. LXVI
dated c. 1880-5

Rouart, Denis, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot avec sa famille etc., Documents réunis et présentés par Denis Rouart, Paris 1950
ill. on p. 61
English edition, London, 1957, p. 65

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper centre edge, graphite: "SIZE I"; lower right corner, graphite: "3".

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