Jacques Emile Blanche (Auteuil 1861 - Paris 1942)
Lucie Esnault reading
Description:
c. 1896
oil on canvas
320 x 410 mm
Provenance:
Paulette Girbal-Addade, Paris
Literature
Jane Roberts and Muriel Molines, Jacques Emile Blanche, (1861-1942), online catalogue raisonné, no. RM 538
Note:
Lucie Esnault was at this time one of Blanche's favourite models. She was the daughter of a locksmith in Auteuil. There is a lithograph of the scene.
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