The Artist's Nephew, Prosper-Raymond de Fleury, Lying in Bed

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, upper left, in black pastel: “à mon neveu Prosper / A Bartholomé”; inscribed in another hand, upper left: “1882”

Provenance

Given by the artist to the father of the sitter, Marquis Olivier de Fleury de Blanchefort (1851–1923), Paris; by descent to his son, Georges-Marie-Prosper-Raymond de Fleury, Marquis de Fleury (1880–1960), Paris; by descent [all early provenance is according to the inscription and Burollet and Gourand]. Sold by John Lishawa, London, through Michael Simpson, London, to Joseph and Deborah Goldyne, San Francisco, 1996 [San Francisco 2006]; sold to private collection, San Francisco [according to Stephen Ongpin (see: https://www.stephenongpin.com/object/868772/0/albert-bartholome-thiverval-grignon)]; sold through Stephen Ongpin, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

Exhibition history

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Judging by Appearance: Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne, Mar. 4–June 4, 2006, pp. 34–35 and 225, cat. 9.

Publications

Thérèse Burollet and Nicolas Gourand, Albert Bartholomé, 1848–1928 (Paris: Arthena ,2017), pp. 175–76, no. PA. 16 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Albert Bartholomé / French, 1848–1928
Date: 1887
Medium: Pastel on brown paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions: 48.9 × 60.9 cm (19 5/16 × 24 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: prints and drawing
Place: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
Accession no.: 2024.126

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.