Estate of the artist, Mme Manet (née Suzanne Leenhoff, 1830–1906), Paris, in 1883, sold to; Louis Gauthier-Lathuille (b. 1857), Paris, still in 1902. [Georges Bernheim, Paris]. Henry-Jean Laroche (1866–1935), Paris.(1) [Paul Rosenberg (1881–1959), Paris, before 1917].(2) [Alfred Flechtheim (1878–1937), Berlin (Galerie Flechtheim), c. 1924]. Alfred Leonhard Tietz (1883–1941), Cologne, c. 1928, to c. 1932.(3) [Possibly French Art Galleries—Moritz (Morris) Gutmann (b. 1892), December 1937 to January 1938].(4) [Otto Gerson (1902–1962), New York, after c. 1940].(5) David M. (1891–1984) and Ruth S. Heyman, New York, by 1947 (sale, New York, Christie’s, 16 May 1984, lot 10, to);(6) A. J. Perenchio (1930–2017), Los Angeles, gifted 2025 to; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Footnotes
(1) Henry-Jean (H.-J.) Laroche appears as the previous owner on Rosenberg’s Inventory Card for this Manet portrait; however, according to The Paul Rosenberg Archives, they do not have any additional information about this Manet in their Laroche file (email from Ilda François to Casie Kesterson, 22 September 2015). The industrialist H.-J. Laroche was an admirer, patron, and collector of Impressionist and modern artists and was close friends with Vuillard. Laroche’s collection was inherited by his son Jacques.
(2) The Paul Rosenberg Archives have very little in their files concerning this Manet, and they have assumed that Rosenberg purchased the Manet sometime before 1917 based on his inventory stock number 159 for this pastel (email from Ilda François to Casie Kesterson, 22 September 2015).
(3) Upon the death of his father, Alfred Tietz took over the eponymous German department store chain in 1914. In the 1930s, the store was Aryanized, and the name was changed from Tietz to Westdeutsche Kaufhof Akiengellschaft [now Galleria Kaufhof]. Tietz immigrated to the Netherlands in 1934, and later to Palestine in 1940, and died in Jerusalem in 1941.
(4) From December 1937 to January 1938, the portrait was exhibited at French Art Galleries in New York, located at 51 East 57th Street. Moritz (Morris) Gutmann (b. 1892 in Stuttgart) fled Berlin in the 1930s, arrived in the US in January 1936, and established French Art Galleries in New York that same year. It is unclear yet if Gutmann owned the painting at this time, or if the painting was on consignment.
(5) New York art dealer Otto Gerson, together with his wife, Ilse Goehler, became active art dealers beginning around 1940.
(6) David M. Heyman was an investment banker, philanthropist, and advocate for improved health services for the City of New York.
