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
Black crayon on heavy off-white wove paper
Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
73.249
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.