Provenance

The artist’s studio sale: Paris, Drouot (Atelier Achille Laugé: Deuxième vente:

dessins, pastels, peintures), 11 March 1977, lot 21 (Portrait de la mère de l’artiste;

reproduced on the cover), bought by

M. Lucien Solanet, Paris, by descent

Exhibitions

Carcassone, Grand salle de la Mairie, 3ème Salon carcassonais, 1895, no  catalogue

Carcassone, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Limoux, Musée Petiet; Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse, 2009-2010, Achille Laugé: le point, la ligne, la lumière, exhibition catalogue by N. Tamburini, pp. 128-9, cat. no. 99, illustrated (exhibited in Douai only

New York, W. M. Brady & Co., Drawings and Oil Sketches, 1700-1900, 2009, cat. no. 28, illustrated (entry by F. Härb)

Giverny, Musée des impressionismes, De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke, 2012, pp. 130, 138, 161, cat. no. 80, illustrated

Washington, National Gallery of Art, Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac, 2013, pp. 130, 138, 161, cat. no. 80, illustrated

Brussels, ING Cultural Centre, and Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904, 2014, pp. 82-82, plate 8 (entry by N. Tamburini)

PRIVATE COLLECTION; now NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON