Property from the Meier Family Collection
Henri-François-Clément Somm
1844 - 1907
Les Parisiennes (Têtes des coquettes)
signed Henri Somm (on the verso)
gouache, watercolor and brush and ink on paper
17 ½ by 11 ½ in.
44.5 by 29 cm.
Executed in the 1890s.
Condition Report
Provenance
Private Collection
Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris
Roger and Laura Meier, Portland (acquired from the above circa 1999)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
(probably) Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Scènes et figures parisiennes, 1943, no. 90 (titled Têtes de femmes en chapeau)
Portland Art Museum, Paris to Portland: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masters in Portland Collections, 2003, n.n., p. 45