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ÉDOUARD VUILLARD Portrait of Madame Besnard.
Pencil on cream wove paper. 210x125 mm; 8 1/4x5 inches. With the artist's estate ink stamp (Lugt 909c, lower right recto).
Ex-collection the estate of the artist; Antoine Salomon, Paris; M. Feilchenfeldt, Zurich; private collection, New York, thence by descent.
The sitter is Charlotte Besnard (1854-1931), the French sculptor and a noted champion of women in the arts, as well as the second wife of the artist Paul-Albert Besnard (1849-1934).
