The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  1973

  (Hôtel Drouot, sale, March 14, 1973, no. 84, sold to François-Gérard Seligmann)

  1973-1976

  (François-Gérard Seligmann, sold to Cyril Humphris)

  1976-1977

  (Cyril Humphris, London, sold to Noah L. Butkin)

  1977-1980

  Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Muriel S. Butkin

  1980-

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 The painting was sold to Seligmann along with its pendant, Portrait de femme (no. 83), which has the same dimensions and date of execution as the Cleveland portrait.  Several days after the auction, Seligmann wrote to his half-brother Germain that he had purchased, “une magnifique paire de portraits de BONNAT.”

  2 In a letter to CMA curator William Talbot, Humphris said that he acquired the painting from an agent - presumably Seligmann - in France who "was directly in touch with the descendents of the sitter."  Humphris continued,  "He [Seligmann] has so far refused to give me the name of the family, as I understand he is hoping to acquire other things from the same source and is not yet prepared to give me more details.”  At this time, the identities of the sitter and his family remain unknown.
• Citations
  Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux modernes. March 14, 1973.

  Louise d’Argencourt, letter to François-Gérard Seligmann, Aug. 3, 1995, in CMA curatorial file.

  François-Gérard Seligmann, letter to Louise d’Argencourt, Aug. 9, 1995, in CMA curatorial file.

  François-Gérard Seligmann, letter to Germain Seligmann, March 19, 1973. Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974, Series 1.3: General Correspondence, 1913-1987. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 88, folder 3 – digitized: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Seligmann-Fran%C3%A7ois-Gerard—289707].

  François-Gérard Seligmann, letter to Louise d’Argencourt, Aug. 9, 1995, in CMA curatorial file.

  Sherman Lee, letter to Cyril Humphris, July 21, 1977, in CMA curatorial file.

  Weisberg, Gabriel P. The European Realist Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

  Cyril Humphris, letter to William Talbot, July 17, 1978, in CMA curatorial file.

  Estate of Noah L. Butkin, Bequests to Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Murel S. Butkin. Estates, Gifts, and Funds, Series 1, Box 2:14. Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

  Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 53-56, Vol. I, no. 20

  Saigne, Guy. Léon Bonnat: le portraitiste de la IIIe République: catalogue raisonné des portraits. [Paris]: Mare & Martin, 2017. Reproduced: P. 461.
• Exhibition History
  Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

  The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 12, 1980-January 18, 1981).

  The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland (1980-82).
• Cite this Page
  {{cite web|title=Portrait of Jean Léglise, Merchant, Mayor of Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx|url=false|author=Léon Bonnat|year=1868|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}