VIRGINIE DEMONT-BRETON (1859-1935)

VIRGINIE DEMONT-BRETON (1859-1935)
L'antre, ca. 1920
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Titled on back
(Possibly non-autographed iconographic alterations and old restorations)
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, titled on the reverse
73 x 100 cm - 28 3/4 x 39 3/4 in.

Provenance
- Private collection, France
- Acquired from the latter

Bibliography
Société des Artistes Français, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure &| lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, avenue Alexandre III, le 30 avril 1920, 133e exposition officielle, Paris : Société des artistes français, 1920, described p. 25 and reproduced (n.p.)

Exhibition
Salon des artistes français, Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, 1920, no. 491

Note
"Virginie Demont-Breton and Hélène Bertaux's efforts in favor of women's entry to the École des Beaux-Arts were not in vain, culminating in 1897 in the possibility for women to take painting and sculpture classes, before obtaining a special class in 1900 and being able to compete for the Prix de Rome in 1903."
Roberta Serra, 2018