Mademoiselle de Mossellmann Riding in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1848

  • Alfred Dedreux, French, 1810-1860

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 104 3/4 × 78 1/2 inches (266.1 × 199.4 cm)
  • 110 1/4 × 85 1/2 × 2 7/8 inches (280 × 217.2 × 7.3 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III in memory of Frances Weir Millsop

75.61

Signed, lower right: Alfred DeDreux/1848

1957, collection of Mme de Forest Mariotti

(Brame and Lorenceau, Paris, France)

(P. & D. Colnaghi and Herner Wengraf [dealers in partnership], London, England)

1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"Salon." Paris, 1848. Cent chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Art Francais 1750-1950. Galerie Charpentier. Paris, 1957, cat. 21, not repr. (unpaginated). "Annual Report," Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 1 (1976): pp. 4, 12, (repr. on cover). Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, "Nouveaux Contacts, Nouveaux Sujets." 1997 (?), p. 103, (repr.).

Alfred Dedreux, Mademoiselle de Mossellmann Riding in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1848, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III in memory of Frances Weir Millsop, 75.61.