Artist | Hippolyte Dominique Berteaux, French, Saint-Quentin, Aisne 1843–Paris 1928 |
Title, Date | Study for “Mystical Brittany”, 1904 |
Medium | Watercolor and gouache over charcoal on tracing paper |
Dimensions | 27 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (70.5 × 47 cm) |
Inscriptions + Marks | Lower right corner in charcoal: Carton [?] pour la Bretagne Mystique / (Musée de Nantes) / H Berteaux 1904 | Center left in charcoal: transparence | Center right in charcoal: rouge interieur des / manches | Upper right in charcoal: impression / mouvement [illegible] / [illegible] profound / reliquarie l’élévé sur [illegible] | Bottom center in charcoal: Pliant [?] |
Provenance | [Galerie Jacques Fischer, Paris, until 2001; to Weisberg]; Yvonne and Gabriel Weisberg, Minneapolis (2001–13; given to Mia) |
Exhibition History | "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection," Mia (2008) and Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Ind. (2010); "Reflections on Reality: Drawings and Paintings from the Weisberg Collection," Mia, 2022–23 |
References | Lisa Dickinson Michaux with Gabriel P. Weisberg, "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection" (exh. cat.), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 2008), pp. 31, 34, fig. 16 |
Credit Line | Gift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg 2013.71 |