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Artist Unknown , French, 19th century
Woman Seated at a Dressing Table
c. 1850–1900
Image Caption
Artist Unknown , French, 19th century, Woman Seated at a Dressing Table, c. 1850–1900, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.530
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
8 7/16 x 6 3/4 in. (21.4 x 17.2 cm)
Object Number
1955.530
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Fontainas, André. Courbet. Paris. 1921. Georgio De Chirico.. Gustave Courbet.. Rome: Editions de "Valori Plastici.". 1925.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Mme Lederlin; Beaumont; Dr. L. Voillemot;¹ [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, Nov. 7, 1950, as Femme au chiffonnier, by Gustave Courbet]; Robert Sterling Clark (1950–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
1. The early provenance is from the Knoedler invoice of 1950. See the Clark’s curatorial file.