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The Study of Drawing: Portrait of Yves Österlind, Age Nine, 1901

Louise Catherine Breslauexpand_more

Pastel on brown cardboardexpand_more

Gift of Dr. Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg in loving memory of Michael D. Michauxexpand_more  2019.115.1

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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
Artist Life
(born Germany), Munich 1856–Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1927
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2019.115.1
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)
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