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| Keywords: Gustave Courbet - Portrait of Anika Psalmon, Mrs. Robin - 40.2 - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg Portrait of a woman The subject faces the spectator the left arm resting on the back of a side chair Black satin gown deep lace collar and cuffs Black lace scarf draped over back of head red flower in hair 36 x 28 3/4 in 91 4 x 73 cm canvas 46 5/8 x 39 x 4 1/2 in 118 4 x 99 1 x 11 4 cm outer frame 40 2 https //api artsmia org/images/584/5482/large jpg Q1700481 Oil on canvas Mme Robin Anika Psalmon in 1882;1 Mme Bally by inheritance to 1938;2 Vente collection de Mme B � Paris June 27 1938 Sold by Mr Carpentier commissaire-priseur and Mr André Schoeller expert reproduit adjugé for 122000 francs to M Germain Seligmann ;3 Germain Seligman New York New York in 1938; Jacques Seligmann and Co New York New York in 1940 ;4 purchased by the MIA through the William Hood Dunwoody fund in 1940 1 According to Bonniot p 214 Mme Robin sat for Courbet at her home in the rue Chanoinesse in Paris in a house that has since disappeared This date is also verified by the 1882 Ecole des Beaux-Arts Courbet exhibition catalogue p 50; and Estignard 1897 p 161 2 Mme Bally was Mme Robin's granddaughter correction from 1970 MIA catalogue See letter in curatorial file from Mrs Laurence Geddes Musée Carnavalet dated 20 Dec 1977 See additional letter from Mrs Geddes dated 10 January 1978 in curatorial file which translates to Madame Bally was the granddaughter of the model The painting left the family about 1939 rather than 1937 Madame Robin was an amateur artist ' and was a familiar figure in the literary circles of her time Before living in the rue Chanoinesse she lived in the old hotel de Nesmond 55 Quai de la Tournelle Paris 5e built during the reign of Louis XIII in 1636 Madame Bally the last proprietress had 8 children 6 of them girls and one of these girls was my grandmother on my mother's side A 1995 letter in the curatorial file from Mrs Marie-Henriette Crouan-Best states that this portrait happens to be my grandmother's grandmother and the portrait �was owned by my family in France until before the last great war was sold probably around the time by my grandmother Madame Bally nèe Robin 3 According to Wildenstein 1977 p 176 4 Invoice in curatorial file dated January 19 1940 Listed from the collection of Madame Bally; it is the portrait of Madame Robin and belonged to her daughter Madame Bally Portrait of Anika Psalmon Mrs Robin https //collections artsmia org/index php page detail id 584 Q20890752 | ||||
