The Mirror in the Green Room (La Glace de la Chambre Verte)

Purchased from the artist in November 1908 by (Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris, France);{1} purchased by Count Harry Kessler [1868-1937], Berlin and Weimar, Germany in January 1909.{2} Dr. George Viau [1855-1939]. (Theodore Schempp, New York, New York) by 1938; sold to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in November 1938.{3} {1} Letter from J. and H. Dauberville of Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris, France, dated 28 September 1965, stating that the painting was B-J no. 16.919, purchased from the artist on 22 November 1908. They also note that the date appearing below the artist`s signature `Janvier 1909` must have been added quite a while later (IMA Historical File). {2} Ibid. The painting can be seen hanging on the salon wall in a photograph of Kessler's Weimar home, see Sabine Walter, `Die Sammlung Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar und Berlin,` in Andrea Pophauken and Felix Billeter, Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin 2001, p. 73. Due to financial insolvency, Kessler's distinguished collection began to be dispersed in the late 1920s, see Beatrice von Bismarck, `Harry Graf Kessler und die französische Kunst um die Jahrhundertwende,` Zeitschrift des deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft, volume 42, no. 3 (1988), p. 62. {3} IMA Temporary Receipt No. 3775.