Half-length Woman, Profile Right
[none known at this time]
The artist (1864-1944), Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, until 1944;
Probably inherited by his wife, Julie Emilie Maria Augusta de Belleroche (née Visseaux, 1882-1958), Brighton, England, 1944-1958 [1];
By descent to their daughter, Alice Sutton (née de Belleroche, b. 1912), Paris, 1958-ca. 1989;
Purchased from Alice Sutton by George C. Kenney II (b. 1944) and Olga Kitsakos-Kenney (b. 1951), Chicago and Short Hills, NJ, ca. 1989-1994 [2];
Given by George C. Kenney II and Olga Kitsakos-Kenney to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1994.
NOTES:
[1] See Newark Advertiser (July 17, 1944), and Newark Herald (February 1, 1958): 2.
[2] In an email, George Kenney stated that he purchased the lithographs from Alice Belleroche about 30 years ago in Paris; see email from George Kenney to Meghan Gray, NAMA, July 19, 2019, NAMA curatorial files.
Albert de Belleroche, log of lithographs, no. AB 489.
George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 285, as Half-length Woman, Profile Right.
