13 mars 2023
Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Cléo de Mérode, 1901
Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Cléo de Mérode, 1901. Oil on canvas, 97.8 x 81.3 cm (38.5 x 32 in.). Courtesy WILDENSTEIN & CO. INC.
Provenance: Commissioned in 1901 by Sigismond Bardac (1856-1919), Paris; acquired sometime after his death by
Baron Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957), Paris
Georges Wildenstein (1892-1963), Paris, by 1925, until 1942; sold under duress in December 1942 (during the liquidation of Wildenstein property in Paris by the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives), to
Count Renato Avogli Trotti, Paris; returned in 1945 to
Georges Wildenstein, Paris and New York, until 1959; when transferred to
A private foundation.
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