GIOVANNI BOLDINI | In the Artist's Studio

Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron, Paris and Geneva (Gontaut-Biron (1859-1939) was an avid collector of Old Masters and nineteenth-century art. In 1914 over three hundred works from his collection were sold at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. A portrait in black chalk of the marquis by Boldini is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (no. 1979.183))  

Gérard de Soriol

Purchased from the above by the father of the present owner in 1996; thence by descent