Jeanne Pontillon à la capeline

Details

BERTHE MORISOT (1841-1895)
Jeanne Pontillon à la capeline
stamped with signature 'Berthe Morisot' (Lugt 1826; lower right)
pastel on blue paper
16 5⁄8 x 12 in. (42 x 30.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1884

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
David and Flora David-Weill, Paris.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of Paris in May 1940 and transferred to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. DW-Mod 44T).
Private collection, Vienna.
Anon. sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 23 September 1977, lot 1341.
Friedrich Welz, Austria (acquired at the above sale).
Province of Salzburg (gift from the above and transferred to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, formerly known as the Moderne Galerie und Graphische Sammlung Repertinum of Salzburg).
Restituted to the heirs of Flora and David David-Weill by the Salzburg Landesregierung on 27 April 2016; sale, Sotheby's, Paris 23 March 2017, lot 46.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

M.-L. Bataille and G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris, 1961, p. 54, no. 478 (illustrated, fig. 462).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Dru, Quelques tableaux, études, pastels, aquarelles et dessins de Berthe Morisot, 1928, no. 19.

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Lot Essay

French-American banker David David-Weill (1871–1952) and his wife Flora David-Weill née Raphäel (1878-1970) supported a range of philanthropic causes, including affordable housing, free medical clinics and university scholarships. As an art collector, David David-Weill’s interests were similarly far-ranging. In addition to European fine and decorative arts, the collection featured Chinese bronzes, Japanese prints, Egyptian antiquities, Iranian ceramics as well as pre‐Columbian objects. While select works were sent to the United States in 1939, the bulk of the collection was deposited for safekeeping between the Château de Sourches and the Château de Mareil‐le‐Guyon from where it would be confiscated by the Nazi authorities. Much of the property would be restituted to the David-Weill’s after 1945.

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