Portrait of an Unknown Woman (‘Miss Marguerite’)
Description:
“Head and bust portrait of a dark-haired young woman, turned slightly to the right and facing front, clad in white and with a single daisy tucked into her lightly open corsage. She has large dark eyes which smile with her lightly parted pink lips, and she is seen against a leaf-green ground.
Signed at the upper right, MULLER-URY.
Height, 21 inches; width, 14 inches.”
Location:
Present Whereabouts Unknown.
Provenance:
Mrs. Emelie de L. Havemeyer (Widow of the late Theodore A. Havemeyer) sale, American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, New York, Wednesday evening, 8p.m., November 18th, 1914, Lot 40. Bought: H. H. Piesen according to American Art News, Vol. XIII, No. 7, November 21, 1914 (probably Hugo H. Piesen 1875-1942, a Czech immigrant to the USA who was Treasurer of New York Jewish Charities and was to be involved with the Skee-Ball Company), $25.00.
A photograph labelled ‘Miss Marguerite’ by the artist is in the artist’s papers. Further, in the copyright files of the Library of Congress there is a photograph of this picture copyrighted by Muller-Ury in 1889 and presumably painted that year, together with another called ‘“Will He Come?”’ (see Subject Pictures) [on the back: Copyright Deposit Fine Arts Division, Rec’d Oct 26 -89, Class W1, W2, Number 32475, 32474, Muller-Uri].
