La femme à la fenêtre, Maternité

Inscriptions: Signed (lower left)

Provenance: Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Paris

Camille Renault, Paris

Simon Askin, New York

Margaret Chanin, New York

Gallery Gertrudę Stein, New York

Sotheby’s, London, 23 June 1993, lot 106

Jacques de La Béraudière, Geneva

Private collection

Exhibitions: Galerie Art Vivant, Paris, Jean Metzinger, 40 peinture inédites de 1910 à 1952, 15 May – 15 June 1952, no. 41 (titled Maternité)

Riverside (?) 1971, p. 12, no. 23

Equitable Center (Roger L. Yaseen), New York, 1993

Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 31 August – 13 October 1985; The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, 10 November – 22 December 1985; The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, 23 January – 9 March 1986; Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 29 March – 25 May 1986, no. 34, p. 51

Los Angles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Monet to Matisse: French Art in Southern California Collections, 9 June – 11 August 1991

Literature: Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 34, reproduced p. 51

Metzinger – Gleizes, du cubisme et après, Musée de la Poste, Paris, reproduced in the catalogue p. 84 (with dimensions 91.5 x 64.8 cm, dated 1911-1912) 

Notes: This work appears to be an hommage to Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s 1789 painting titled Madame Vigée Le Brun et sa fille, oil on canvas, 130 x 94 cm, Louvre.