Galerie Georges Petit, Paris
Sale: Christie's, London, April 4, 1989, lot 115
Robert C. Guccione, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Nancy Whyte, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006

Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Intimates and Confidants in Art, Wives, Lovers and Friends, 1993
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, From Botticelli to Matisse: Masterpieces of the Guccione Collection, 1994
Weimar, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Into the Outside! Barbizon, The Weimar School of Painters and the Departure of Impressionism, 2010, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

This work is in overall very good condition and the painting has a lovely rich impasto surface. The canvas is not lined and UV examination does not reveal any retouchings. The UV light does reveal two very fine lines of fluorescence to the center of the upper right quadrant though these do not appear to be consistent with retouchings. There is a faint stretcher bar mark horizontally across the painting.
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The artist's model for the present work was his wife, Marie Barbaroux. In the tradition of the great nineteenth-century Symbolists, Martin depicts her here in the guise of the poetess Clémence Isaure.