The Study of Drawing: Portrait of Yves Österlind, Age Nine, Louise Catherine Breslau | Mia

boy with blonde bobbed hair wearing a blue shirt, seated at a worktable with brushes, glass, and fruit — The Study of Drawing: Portrait of Yves Österlind, Age Nine, 1901
Louise Catherine Breslau
Pastel on brown cardboard
Gift of Dr. Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg in loving memory of Michael D. Michaux 2019.115.1
Not on View
The Impressionist Louise Catherine Breslau led a successful, prolific career in Paris as a portraitist and still-life painter. Raised in Zurich, she moved to Paris in 1876 to study at the Académie Julian, which admitted women and was the only art school in Paris that permitted women to draw nude models.

Yves Österlind (1892–1937) was the child of Breslau’s friends, the Swedish painter Allan Österlind and French watercolorist Eugénie Carré Österlind. Breslau executed pastels of each of the three Österlind children between 1900 and 1904. This portrait of nine-year-old Yves, the youngest, shows the fair-haired boy at his desk, sharpening chalk. All three of the Österlind children became artists; Yves was a printmaker.

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Title: The Study of Drawing: Portrait of Yves Österlind, Age Nine
Dated: 1901
Artist: Louise Catherine Breslau
Nationality: Swiss
Artist Life: (born Germany), Munich 1856–Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1927
Role: Artist
Gallery: Not on View
Department: European Art
Dimension: 25 5/8 × 31 13/16 in. (65.1 × 80.8 cm)
Credit: Gift of Dr. Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg in loving memory of Michael D. Michaux
Accession Number: 2019.115.1
Medium: Pastel on brown cardboard
Country: France
Century: 20th century
Provenance: Eugénie Carré Österlind [d. 1936]; by descent to her son, Anders Österlind [d. 1960]; estate of Anders Österlind, Ornano-Österlind Collection, Gargilesse, Creuse, France, until 2007/8; sale, Montluçon, France, 2007/8, to Pelazzo. [Pelazzo–Lexcellent Antiquités, Marché Serpette, Saint Ouen, until July 2008; to Weisberg]; Yvonne and Gabriel Weisberg, Minneapolis (2008–19; given to Mia)
Rights: Public Domain
Classification: Drawings; Works on Paper
Object Name: Pastel
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