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Deux Jeunes Femmes Sous les Arbres (Two Young Women Under the Trees)
Deux Jeunes Femmes Sous les Arbres (Two Young Women Under the Trees)

Deux Jeunes Femmes Sous les Arbres (Two Young Women Under the Trees)

Artist Maurice Denis French, 1870 - 1943
Date1893
MediumLithograph on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 11/16 x 6 3/16 in. (24.6 x 15.7 cm)
Matboard: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineThe Sparling Family Collection
Object number2014.2.22
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SignedLL, in the stone, vertical monogram of letters in artist's name--MAUD--with the U shaped like a V in an old-fashioned useage; Denis' full name is drawn in the stone across the top of the image itself, with the "M" of Maurice drawn on the basket or tray that the left hand figure carries on her head. The right hand figure has the date "1893" on her basket.
InscribedBelow the print, on the matboard: "Titre de l'Exposition Maurice Denis/chez le Bare de Boutterille/(1893)/Cailler 75/P.E. Boyer 176/B V Inv. N.D." Loeer right:"Rarissime" - Cailler On verso, lower left: "APG 15752" On verso, lower right in pencil: "Deux jeunes femmes sous les arbres" "te" "Z00676"
DescriptionChecklist of works exhibited by Denis in 1893 with the list of 11 items drawn in the stone along with an image above and alongside the titles. The image is of two women carrying baskets on their heads and walking under tree branches. This may be an oblique reference to the painting on the list titled "Procession sous les arbres," however that painting is very different from the imagery seen in this print. "Procession sous les arbres" is a large canvas with women dressed in long, white head and body garments walking though a grove of trees with tall, elongated, green trunks, towards an angel. It is in the collection of the Musée D'Orsay.

The titles of the works listed on this 'checklist' are as follows:
I. Sancta Maria
II. Le Martyr
III. Visitation
IV. Suzanne
V. L'Enfant au fouet
VI. Luitte de Jacob avec l'Auge
VII. Legende de chevalerie
VIII. Procession sous les arbes
IX. Les deux femmes et l'enfant
X. Lithographie sur Pelleas et Mélisande
XI. Quatre motifs de papier peint [wall paper]Exhibition HistoryToulouse-Lautrec & Company: Prints from the Belle Époque, March 3 - May 27, 2012Provenanceby 2011, New York, NY, C.& J. Goodfriend (dealer)
2011, Houston, TX, Tobin Sparling
2014, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust