About the Artwork
Young Woman
1858
Alexandre Jean Baptiste Hesse
1806-1879
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 53 7/8 × 38 5/8 inches (136.8 × 98.1 cm) Framed: 60 3/8 × 40 7/8 × 2 1/2 inches (153.4 × 103.8 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
79.144
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Markings
Signed and dated, upper left: Alexandre Hess | 1858
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Provenance
until March 4, 1979, collection of the family of the sitter
March 4, 1979, auctioned (Versailles, France)
1979, (Pierre Gaubert Galerie, Paris, France)
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Aubrun, M.-M. Alexandre Hesse 1806-1879 Quelques aspects du portraitiste et du dessinateur. Exh. cat., Galerie Pierre Gaubert. Paris, April 24-May 25, 1979. cat. 3, repr.
"Annual Report 1979/80," Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): pp. 194, 196, 244, (fig. 41).
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Alexandre Jean Baptiste Hesse, Young Woman, 1858, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 79.144.
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