Contra-Jour

Artist Louise Catherine Breslau (Swiss, born Germany, 1856 - 1927)

Date1889

MediumDrypoint over etching on beige wove paper

DimensionsImage: 4 15/16 × 8 1/16 inches (12.6 × 20.5 cm)
Plate: 6 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (16.5 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/16 × 10 5/8 inches (18 × 27 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert and Barbara Bloch

Object number2024.39

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European Art

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DescriptionInterior setting with two female figures engaged in conversation. The woman at left is seated in front of a window on its ledge and looks out at the viewer, holding a sketchbook on her lap. There is a large, flowering potted plant to her immediate right on the window ledge. The woman at right sits on a chair and appears in profile leaning toward the woman at left. Betwen them is a small table with two cups holding painting implements.Provenance

Provenance

Private Collection, Rhone-Alpes, France by at least May 2024;

Acquired, Robert L. and Barbara Bloch, by May 24;

Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.

Published References

Hovelaque, Emile. "Contemporary Artists - Miss Louise Breslau", Gazette des Beaux-arts, September 1905, pp.195-206.

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