Maria Writing, 1892

  • Émile Bernard, French, 1868-1941

Black crayon on heavy off-white wove paper

  • Image: 12 1/8 × 7 7/8 inches (30.8 × 20 cm) Sheet: 12 1/8 × 7 7/8 inches (30.8 × 20 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund

73.249

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed and dated, in brown ink, lower right: Maria | Pont Aven | 1892

Stamp, in black ink, lower right: Emile Bernand Stamp, in purple ink: E.B Traces, in purple ink, lower right of portrait

Private collection (Paris, France)

Stefanie Maison (London, England)

1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Emile Bernard, 1868-1941: Peintures, Desseins, Graveurs. Exh. cat., Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts. Lille, 1967, no. 68.

Émile Bernard, Maria Writing, 1892, black crayon on heavy off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 73.249.