This work has been certified and will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre de Maurice Denis by Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl
Signed with the initials ‘MauD’ and dated 1902 upper right, titled on the reverse
Artist’s studio
M. Curt von Mutzenbecher, Wiesbaden
Joachim van Ribbentrop
Acquired from the above by Mme Schrader, Berlin, 1940
Hence by descent
Private collection, Germany
Private collection
Paris, Grandes Serres de l'Exposition universelle, Société des Artistes Indépendants. 18e exposition, 1902, no. 560
Weimar, Grossherzogliches Museum für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, Peintures et meubles de la collection Kurt von Mutzenbecher, Wiesbaden, 1904
London, Embassy of the Russian Federation, 2000 Years of Christianity, European Art in Private and Corporate Russian Collections, 2000, no. 38
Adrien Mithouard, 'Maurice Denis', Art et Décoration, vol. XXII, July-December 1907, illustrated p. 4
Ardengo Soffici, 'Maurice Denis', Vita d'Arte, Siena, no. 24, December 1909, illustrated n.p.
Francesco Margotti, 'Nuove manifestazioni d'arte Cristiana. Maurice Denis', Arte Cristiana, Milan, no. 3, 15th March 1914, illustrated p. 67
Carina Schäfer, Theaterintendant mit Faible für französische Kunst. Die Sammlung Kurt von Mutzenbecher, Wiesbaden, Berlin, 2001, illustrated p. 125