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LOUIS VALTAT Étude d'une femme (Madame Valtat).
Red conté crayon on paper, circa 1905. 247x317 mm; 9 3/4x12 1/2 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the artist, Paris, with the black ink stamp (Lugt 1771bis, lower left recto); Galerie J. Le Chapelin, Paris, with the label; private collection, New York.
The artist's wife, née Suzanne Noel (1879-1967), married in Versailles in 1900, was Valtat's favorite model and posed for an oil portrait by the artist's friend, Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1903, now in a private collection.
