20. Hippolyte Dominique Berteaux, Study for “Mystical Brittany”

ArtistHippolyte Dominique Berteaux, French, Saint-Quentin, Aisne 1843–Paris 1928
Title, DateStudy for “Mystical Brittany”, 1904
MediumWatercolor and gouache over charcoal on tracing paper
Dimensions27 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (70.5 × 47 cm)
Inscriptions + MarksLower 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
ReferencesLisa 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 LineGift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg 2013.71
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