JULES-JOSEPH LEFEBVRE (FRENCH, 1836-1911) Mignon

JULES-JOSEPH LEFEBVRE (FRENCH, 1836-1911)
Mignon
signed 'Jules Lefebvre' (upper left); dated '1886.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
26 x 16 in. (66 x 40.6 cm.)

Provenance
(probably) with Boussod, Valadon, et Cie., Paris.
(probably) with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired directly from the above, 23 April 1886.
(probably) George Ingraham Seney (1826-1893), New York, acquired directly from the above, 27 May 1886.
John Josiah Emery, Sr. (1835-1908), Cincinnatti.
Cincinnatti Art Museum, Cincinnatti, gifted by the above, 1910.
Their sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 October 1945, lot 89.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York.
Frank Howard Walsh (1913-1998) and Mary D. Fleming Walsh (1913-2005), Fort Worth, TX.
Walsh Family Art Trust, gifted by the above.
Their sale; Heritage Auctions, Dallas, 10 November 2006, lot 25075.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 4 June 2009, lot 119.