The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  1925

  (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, sold to Madame Faure)

  After 1925

  Madame Faure, Paris

  Until 1949

  (Roland Balay, Paris, sold one-half share to Knoedler & Co.)

  1949-1951

  (Knoedler & Co. New York, and Carstairs Gallery (Roland Balay and Georges Keller), New York, sold to Jack F. Chrysler

  1951

  Jack F. Chrysler, New York, sold to Knoedler & Co.

  1952

  (Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Adele Lehman)

  1952-1963

  Adele Lehman, New York, sold to Knoedler & Co.

  1963

  (Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Mildred Olive Andrews Putnam)

  1963-1984

  Mildred Olive Andrews Putnam [1890-1984], Cleveland, OH, held in trust by her estate and then given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

  1988-

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 Bernheim-Jeune purchased the painting directly from Bonnard.

  2 The source for Madame Faure’s ownership is the Bonnard catalogue raisonné by Jean and Henry Dauberville, published by Bernheim-Jeune.  Details of her identity are unknown, but possible candidates include the wife of Jean-Baptiste Faure, a collector of Impressionist works; a Madame J. Faure, who lent a Guigou painting to an exhibition at Galerie Daber in 1939, and who may or may not be the wife of Jean-Baptiste Faure; or Madame Charles Faure, who gave a Seignemartin painting to the Musée du Luxembourg in 1905 (currently in the Musée d’Orsay).

  3 The Bonnard catalogue raisonné and Knoedler stock book and inventory card indicate that prior to Knoedler & Co., the painting was with Roland Balay, the grandson of Michael Knoedle

  4 Balay appears to have sold one-half share of the Bonnard (stock no. A4209) to Knoedler & Co. on May 31, 1949, while retaining partial ownership in his capacity as owner, along with Georges Keller, of Carstairs Gallery, an offshoot of Knoedler.  Knoedler and Balay jointly sold the painting to Chrysler on April 27, 1951.

  5 Chrysler owned the Bonnard only briefly, from April 27, 1951 until he returned the painting to Knoedler on December 4 of that same year.  

  6 The Knoedler inventory cards at the Getty Research Institute show that Knoedler sold the Bonnard (inventory no. A4747) to Mrs. Arthur (Adele) Lehman on January 19, 1952.  She then sold the painting back to Knoedler on February 12, 1963.   

  7 Putnam purchased the painting from Knoedler on May 17, 1963 (inventory no. A8467).  
• Citations
  Dauberville, Jean, and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: J. et H. Bernheim, 1966.

  Dauberville, Jean, and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: J. et H. Bernheim, 1966.

  Dauberville, Jean, and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: J. et H. Bernheim, 1966.

  Knoedler Book 9, Stock No. A4209, Page 191, Row 42, http://archives.getty.edu:30008/getty_images/digitalresources/goupil/jpgs/gri_2012_m_54_b9_227.jpg, Dealer Stock Books, Getty Research Institute.

  Knoedler Book 9, Stock No. A4209, Page 191, Row 42, http://archives.getty.edu:30008/getty_images/digitalresources/goupil/jpgs/gri_2012_m_54_b9_227.jpg, Dealer Stock Books, Getty Research Institute.

  Dauberville, Jean, and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: J. et H. Bernheim, 1966.

  Pierre Bonnard, Series IV Inventory Cards, M. Knoedler & Co. records, box 134, Getty Research Institute.

  Dauberville, Jean, and Henry Dauberville. Bonnard, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris: J. et H. Bernheim, 1966.

  Pierre Bonnard, Series IV Inventory Cards, M. Knoedler & Co. records, box 134, Getty Research Institute.

  Pierre Bonnard, Series IV Inventory Cards, M. Knoedler & Co. records, box 146, Getty Research Institute.

  Pierre Bonnard, Series IV Inventory Cards, M. Knoedler & Co. records, box 146, Getty Research Institute.

  Pierre Bonnard, Series IV Inventory Cards, M. Knoedler & Co. records, box 146, Getty Research Institute.

  “The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75. Mentioned: p. 69, no. 31 www.jstor.org

  Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 20-21, Vol. I, no. 7
• Exhibition History
  The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).
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