Portrait of Louise Abbema
Sarah Bernhardt
(French, 1844–1923)
1875
Object PlaceFrance
Medium/TechniqueMetal; bronze
DimensionsOverall: 21.5 x 18.1 x 3.8 cm (8 7/16 x 7 1/8 x 1 1/2 in.)
Credit LineOtis Norcross Fund and Gift of Robert A. Radloff and Ann Beha
Accession number1989.196
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1875, given by the artist to Louise Abbema (b. 1858 - d. 1927) [see note 1]. June 16, 1978, possibly anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 15 [see note 2]. 1989, Sandorval and Co., Inc., New York; 1989, sold by Sandorval to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 21, 1989)
NOTES:
[1] Abbema was also an artist and a close friend of Sarah Bernhardt. The portrait is inscribed: "A Mon Amie Louise Abbema, Sarah Bernhardt 1875." [2] It has not yet been established whether the object in this sale is the MFA object, or a variant of nearly identical dimensions.
NOTES:
[1] Abbema was also an artist and a close friend of Sarah Bernhardt. The portrait is inscribed: "A Mon Amie Louise Abbema, Sarah Bernhardt 1875." [2] It has not yet been established whether the object in this sale is the MFA object, or a variant of nearly identical dimensions.
John Bernhardt
John Bernhardt
about 1600
