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Young Woman with Brown Hair

(French, 1829–1905)
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions46.7 x 37.5 cm (18 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit LineJuliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession number39.651
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left: JJ Henner
ProvenanceJanuary 26, 1904, from the artist to Tooth and Sons, London (stock no. 3541); December 21, 1904, transferred from Tooth and Sons, London, to Tooth and Sons, New York; 1904, sold by Tooth and Sons to Robert J. Edwards (d. 1924), Boston; 1924, by inheritance to his sisters, Hannah Marcy Edwards (d. 1929) and Grace M. Edwards (d. 1938), Boston; 1939, bequest of Grace M. Edwards. [see note 1] (Accession Date: October 11, 1939)

NOTES:
[1] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.


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Road through a Forest
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot
1885
Ships on the River Waal
Paul Jean Clays
1871
Three Men Shearing Sheep in a Barn
Jean-François Millet
about 1852
St.-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris
Jean-François Raffaëlli
about 1897
Two Soldiers
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier
1849
Study for Wounded Cuirassier
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Officer
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier