19th Century European Paintings
19th Century European Paintings
PROPERTY FROM A BRITISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
JACQUES-ÉMILE BLANCHE | Fille à la robe blanche
Auction Closed
July 9, 02:03 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
JACQUES-EMILE BLANCHE
French
1861 - 1942
Fille à la robe blanche
signed and dated J E Blanche / 96 lower right
oil on canvas
72 by 58cm., 28 by 22¾in.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Jane Roberts.
Private collection, Belfort, France
Sale: Maître Patrick Gauthier, Belfort, 25 March 1990
Richard Green, London
Richard Nathanson, London
Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London
Private collection, UK (purchased from the above circa 1989)
Jane Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche, 2012, Montreuil, p. 70, illustrated (as Pouponne Zelinska vue de dos)
The sitter is Wanda Zelinska, nicknamed 'Pouponne', a girl from Auteuil of whom Blanche produced a great many pastels and paintings between 1889 and 1897. She was also frequently used as a model for his many lithographs.