Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt

Artist Henry Somm (French, 1844 - 1907)

Dateca. 1880

MediumWatercolor on paper

DimensionsOverall: 6 × 4 1/4 inches (15.24 × 10.8 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-193/14

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Paris: A Collage, Kansas Union Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, January 25–February 13, 1976, no. 66.

Provenance

With Richard Owen, Paris, by September 26–December 1, 1932 [1];

Purchased from Owen, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] See letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons, art advisor to NAMA, to J. C. Nichols, NAMA Trustee, September 26, 1932.

Published References

Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (1937), 31:272, as Bildnis Sarah Bernhardt.

Jeanne Stump, Howard Collinson, and Katherine Giele, Paris: A Collage, exh. cat. (Lawrence, KS: Kansas Union Gallery, 1976), unpaginated, as Sarah Bernhardt.

“Somm, Henry or Henri pseudonym of François Clément Sommier,” Benezit Dictionary of Artists: Oxford Art Online (October 31, 2011): https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00172120.

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