| Artist | Charles Milcendeau, French, Soullans, Vendée 1872–Soullans, Vendée 1919 |
| Title, Date | Old Spanish Woman (Vieille femme espagnole), 1901 |
| Medium | Charcoal and conté crayon over graphite with touches of white gouache on beige paper, laid down on board |
| Dimensions | 25 3/16 × 18 1/2 in. (64 × 47 cm) |
| Inscriptions + Marks | Lower left in black chalk: Ch. Milcendeau / 1901 | Framer's sticker [Albert ROL . . ./ Encadreur Doreu / 12, rue Perignon / Paris]; U.S. Customs sticker, Serial [125?]; Case [282?] | Upper left in pen and brown ink, on sticker (verso): [Fusain M Milcendeau / Veille [?] Espagnole / n.o 6] | Upper right, on sticker: [Milcendeau / 1374]; in blue chalk: [1374 / M / 1374 / A M] |
| Provenance | [Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris, until 1996; to Weisberg]; Yvonne and Gabriel Weisberg, Minneapolis (1996–2012; given to Mia) |
| Exhibition History | "Louisiana Purchase Exposition," April 30–December 1, 1904, Palace of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Mo.; "Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection," Mia (2008) and Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Ind. (2010); "Milcendeau, le mâitre des regards," Historial de la Vendée, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, France, 2012; "Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts," Mia (2014); Grand Rapids Art Museum, Mich. (2015); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (2016); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Neb. (2018); "Reflections on Reality: Drawings and Paintings from the Weisberg Collection," Mia, 2022–23 |
| References | Frederick J. V. Skiff and Halsey C. Ives, "Official Catalogue of Exhibitors, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, USA 1904" (exh. cat.), Palace of Fine Arts (St. Louis: The Official Catalogue Company, 1904), no. 629; "Exposition de Peintures de Charles Milcendeau" (exh. cat.), Galerie E. Druet (Paris, 1914), no. 85?; 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. 65–66, 94, fig. 38; Christophe Vital, Gabriel Weisberg, and Yvonne Weisberg, "Charles Milcendeau, 1872–1919, Sa vie, son oeuvre" (exh. cat.), Historial de la Vendée, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, France (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2012), pp. 20–21, 289, no. 8, ill. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg 2012.104 |
