Woman at Her Toilette with a Servant

Prints and Drawings

c. 1900

Suzanne Valadon
French, 1865-1938

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Suzanne Valadon
Title: Woman at Her Toilette with a Servant
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1900
Medium: Black Conté crayon, fixed, on ivory wove paper, discolored to tan, prepared with a white ground
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in black chalk: "Suzanne Valadon"
Dimensions: 30.9 × 22.1 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1933.529

Adolphe Basler, Suzanne Valadon (Paris, 1929), fig. 32.
John Storm, The Valadon Drama: The Life of Suzanne Valadon (New York, 1958), (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 119–120, no. 7A11.
The Annual Exhibition Record of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1888–1950 (Madison, Conn., 1990), p. 907.

The Art Institute of Chicago,”The Tenth International Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Miniatures,” March 20–April 20, 1930, cat. 61 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Water Colors,” April 6–October 9, 1932, cat. 62.

Annie Swan Coburn (1856–1932), Chicago, by 1932; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

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