Jean Béraud artwork • painting • for sale Les Midinettes
Jean Béraud
Sint-Petersburg (Rusland) 1849-1935 Parijs
1849-1935
Les Midinettes
oil on painter's board 54.9 x 36.7 cm, signed l.l.
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 75,000
Provenance: Galerie Bernheim-Jeune & Cie., Parijs, rechtstreeks van de schilder verworven op 4 nov. 1910, inv.nr. 18374, verkocht op 11 mei 1911; veiling Drouot, Parijs, 2 nov. 1942, lotnr. 1 (als 'Deux élégantes'); veiling Galerie Charpentier, Parijs, 7-8 dec. 1954, lotnr. 13; veiling Nouveau Drouot, Parijs, 18 juni 1985, lotnr. 3; veiling Christie's, New York, 30 okt. 1985, lotnr. 18 (als 'Les Midinettes'); nalatenschap Paula en Don Gaston, Verenigde Staten; part. bezit Verenigde Staten.
Literature: Patrick Waldberg, 'Eros Modern Style', Parijs, 1964, afb. pag. 17; Patrick Offenstadt, 'Jean Béraud. The Belle Époque: A Dream of Times Gone By', Catalogue Raisonné, Keulen 1999, pag. 292, cat.nr. 402.
'Midinettes’ was the nickname given in the Parisian Belle Époque to the group of young girls who worked for the major Parisian couture and fashion houses. These girls, who mostly came from the working-class districts of Montmartre and Belville, began their training at the age of 12 or 13. Because these seamstresses, embroiderers and saleswomen could not go home for lunch, they had a small snack (dinette) in a café around noon (midi) or ate their home-cooked lunch in one of the Parisian parks. These young women, who were usually of modest origin, were often elegantly dressed and well-informed about the latest fashion.
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