Woman Seated by an Easel
c. 1884-1888
Artists
Dimensions
30.5 x 23.3 cm (12 x 9 3/16 in.) frame: 48.3 x 40.6 x 3.2 cm (19 x 16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Provenance
The artist until 1891 (Posthumous inventory, dessin. no. 300). Probably given by the artist's family to the Symbolist critic Francis Vielé-Griffin in 1891. Félix Fénélon, Paris, by 1928. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, New York, by 1929, until 1937, sold (through their sale, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, April 30, 1937, no. 202); to John H. Lutz for Maurice Wertheim, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1951
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