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Interior study for a party hosted by Mme Mackay

Interior study for a party hosted by Mme Mackay

(French)
1880
Medium/TechniquePencil, watercolor, gouache
DimensionsSheet: 25.5 x 51 cm (10 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund and Charles Amos Cummings Fund
Accession number2015.3271
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsIII/Madame Makay/1880/with various annotations in graphite: le fond de la tenturs est en damas de Soie blanc/les [ ] et [ ] en damas/de Soie Rouge-/les [ ] et tabliers en velours Rouge -/[ ] est en damas de soie jaune-/le velum est en [ ] soir, mais et blanc, et Rose-/hauteur de la grille
Provenance1880, created by the Belloir and Vazelle firm, Paris; until about 2000, passed by descent in the Belloir family, France; about 2000, sold by the Belloir family to Delbosse (dealer); 2015, sold by Delbosse to Jacques Sargos, Bordeaux; 2015, sold by Jacques Sargos, through Jane Roberts Fine Arts (dealer), Paris, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 16, 2015)