Portrait of Madame Valentine Marie Elise Nérou
Artist
Basile Lemeunier
(French, 1852 - 1922)
Date1898
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 36 × 27 3/4 inches (91.44 × 70.49 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hélène Kulche- Levinson and Daniel Levinson
Object number2023.46
SignedSigned and dated lower right: B. LEMEUNIER. 1898
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA full-length painting of a light-skinned woman walking down a dirt road among late-fall or winter foliage. She wears a black puffed-sleeved coat, pinned at her left shoulder with a spray of lavender. Three mauve stripes at the bottom of her black dress match her mauve petticoat, and the black and mauve cap on top of her upswept hair. She carries a closed umbrella in her gloved right hand.Exhibition History[None known at this time.]
Valentine Marie
Elise Nérou (née Lair, 1859–1937), 1898–1937;
By descent to her
son, André Henri Michel Nérou (1884–1965) and his wife, Marie Célestine
Marguerite Nérou (1890–1968), Paris, 1937–1968;
By descent to
their daughter, Cécile Marcelle Nérou (1923-1985), Paris, 1968–1985;
By descent to her niece, Hélène (Francoise) Kulche-Levinson,
and her husband, Daniel Levinson, Greenwich, CT, and Atlanta, 1985–2023 [1];
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,
MO, 2023.
NOTES:
[1] Kulche-Levinson’s younger sister Christel, who lived in
Antwerp, kept the painting until Christmas 1999 when the Levinsons brought it
back to the States.
[None known at this time.]
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