About This Artwork

Suzanne Valadon
French, 1865-1938

Puberty, 1908

Pastel and charcoal, with stumping on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory card
613 x 342 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in black pastel: "Suzanne Valadon 1908"
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection, 1943.1055

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 120, no. 7A12.

Richard Kendall, Degas and The Little Dancer, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn., 1998), p. 12, fig. 4.

Ownership History

Given by Carter H. Harrison (1860–1953), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1943.