Portrait de femme / Portrait of a woman with hat, in profile




on recto, lower left, signed “j.l. forain 1881”
on verso, upper right, inscribed in red: “Dr. G.”; printed label: “Vente du 24 au 28 Juin 1942/ Hall du Savoy, Nice (A.-M.) / Cabinet d'un Amateur Parisien / No. 176 [handwritten] du Catalogue / Dirigée par Me J.-J. Terris, Commissaire-Priseur/ 3 Rue Provana, à Nice (A.-M.)/ 22 [handwritten] / avec le concours de Me Bussilet, Commissaire-Priseur à LYON/ assistés de M.E.MARTINI, expert d’Art Ancien et Moderne / Villa Bellevue, SAINT-LAURENT-DU-VAR (A.-M.)”; on same label, at left: ”REPRODUIT AU CATALOGUE” and two red stamps; below, inscribed in white chalk: “35 x 26”
on frame, at right, inscribed in white chalk:“2409” [?]; lower centre, a fragment of a handwritten label: “22”; lower left, fragment of a newspaper clipping with the headline: “Dernières journées de la vente Dorville / 2 MILLIONS 200.000 FRANCS / pour 95 dessins et aquarelles / Constantin Guys”; upper left, inscribed in white chalk: “DG/ 9”; in blue: “…oir Elia [remainder illegible] in white chalk: DG/9[?]; fragments of paper at upper left
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By latest 1933: Armand Dorville, Paris
Sale: Vente aux enchères du cabinet d’un amateur parisien. Hall du Savoy, Nice, 24–27 June 1942, no. 176, pl. XLVII
Léopold Dreyfus, Nice, acquired at the above sale
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By latest 28 April 1944: with Raphaël Gerard, Paris (per Gurlitt Papers)
After September 1953: Hildebrand Gurlitt, Dusseldorf (per Gurlitt Papers)
Thence by descent to Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg
From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt
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