PROVENANCE:
Charles-Auguste Girard, Paris;
Fernand Herbin, Paris;
Private collection, Paris;
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 April 1989, lot 21;
Christie’s, London, 27 June 1989, lot 136;
JPL Fine Arts, London;
Private Collection, Switzerland;
Neffe-Degandt Gallery, London;
acquired from the above in 2004, thence by descent.

LITERATURE:
A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, critical catalogue of paintings and pastels. Paris, 2003, vol. III, p. 1564 and 1699, no. XII-214 (illustrated, p. 1564)

DESCRIPTION:
This pastel represents Madame Hessel, the wife of Vuillard’s dealer, with her daughter, aged six at the time.