Provenance

The sitter's mother, Mme J.-B. Pierret, until at least 1885
presumably inherited by the sitter's sister Anne-Claire Pierret (Mme C. F. Vila)
Mme E. Carlier (née Vila), the sitter's niece, who gave it to Mme Nicour, her stepdaughter (died 1925)
by her request to Mme Madeleine Oberthur (née Jouanneau), great-grandniece of the sitter, Rennes, until 1958
Mrs. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich
Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, Cleveland, 1958
Given to the CMA in 1964

External links

The Cleveland Museum of Art Accession number 1964.284

Other works by Eugène Delacroix

Peace Consoling Man and Restoring Abundance to Earth
1852

The Taking of Constantinople by the Crusaders
1841

Still-Life with Lobsters
c. 1826

Mlle. Alexandrine-Julie de la Boutraye
c. 1832-34

Figure in Turkish Costume
c. 1856-63