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Paul Helleu
1859-1927
Portrait of Belle da Costa Greene
1913
Black, white, and red chalk on paper.
26 9/16 x 21 inches (675 x 534 mm)
Bequest of Belle da Costa Greene.
1950.12
Notes:
Belle da Costa Greene came to the Library at the age of twenty-one in 1905 as J. Pierpont Morgan's librarian and was later named Director in 1924 when the Library was incorporated as an endowed institution. Helleu drew Belle's portrait in 1913, several months prior to Pierpont Morgan's death.
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Signed in black chalk at left, "Helleu".
Provenance:
Belle da Costa Greene (1883-1950), New York.
Associated names:
Greene, Belle da Costa, former owner.
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