Léonie de LOGHADÈS
( 1859 - c.1939)
A Young Woman with an Umbrella
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Pastel on brown paper.
Signed Loghadès twice in black chalk at the upper right.
557 x 325 mm. (21 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.)
Signed Loghadès twice in black chalk at the upper right.
557 x 325 mm. (21 7/8 x 12 3/4 in.)
Only a handful of works by Léonie de Loghadès are known, almost all of which are pastel portraits.
The daughter of the Russian painter Fedor Petrovich Tchoumakoff(1832-1911), Léonie Tchoumakoff married A. C. de Loghadès Effendi, the Turkish ambassador in Paris, in 1882. She is known to have enrolled in the Académie Julian, the well-known private art school in Paris, in 1903, when she would have been in her mid-forties, and also exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français.
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12 December 2007, lot 122
Private collection.
Private collection.