Lot 1: EVA GONZALÈS (1849-1883) Le moineau signed ‘Eva Gonzalès’ (upper right) pas

EVA GONZALÈS (1849-1883) Le moineau signed ‘Eva Gonzalès’ (upper right) pastel on paper laid down on canvas 24 1/4 x 19 7/8 in. (61.5 x 50.5 cm.) Executed circa 1865-1870

PROVENANCE: The artist’s estate; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 February 1885, lot 67. Henri Guérard, until at least 25 May 1897. Jeanne Guérard-Gonzalès, Paris, by descent from the above, in 1897. Jean-Raymond Guérard, Paris, by 1924. Galerie Brame et Lorenceau, Paris, by circa 1975. Acquired from the above by the present owner, by 1988.