Suzanne Hecht Pontremoli (Paris, 31 December 1876 - Paris, 19 March 1956) was a French art collector.
Suzanne Hecht Pontremoli (Paris, 31 December 1876 - Paris, 19 March 1956) was a French art collector.
Suzanne Hecht was born in Paris to Albert Hecht (born in Brussels on 2 July 1842 and died in Paris on 21 August 1889), one of the greatest and most important Impressionist collectors, and Mathilde Oulman (born in Versailles on 8 July 1849 and died in Paris in 1937). In 1896 she married the famous Italian-born architect [1] Emmanuel Pontremoli, grandson of Eliseo Pontremoli. [2]
Her father Albert had his friend Édouard Manet make three portraits of his daughter dated 1882. They are currently kept in the Musée d'Orsay. [3] [4]
With her husband Emmanuel Pontremoli, she began collecting the works of the most influential artists of the time, including John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, some of which she inherited from her father.
During the Nazi occupation of France, his sons Michel Pontremoli and Jean Pontremoli enlisted and fought with the French partisan force. In 1944, they both died at the hands of the Nazis. [5]
When he died in 1956, he left his entire art collection to his daughter Mathilde, who was married to Jean Trenel (grandson of Rabbi Leon Trenel) who was deported to the Auschwitz death camp where he was murdered on 23 March 1943. [6]
Following the death of his daughter Therese in 1987, some paintings were given to the Louvre Museum in Paris. [7] [8]
The collection includes paintings collected by Suzanne and her husband Emmanuel Pontremoli.
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
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Events from the year 1869 in art.
Events from the year 1875 in art.
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The Rue Mosnier with Flags is an 1878 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, showing the eponymous Parisian street, decorated with French flags for the first national holiday on 30 June 1878, the Fête de la Paix. The Fête de la Paix was held during that year's Exposition Universelle, which together marked France's recovery after the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. The holiday was moved to 14 July in 1880 to become Bastille Day. The painting is held by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
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Michel Pontremoli was a French civil servant and partisan, an active intellectual and close friend of Francis Ponge, Albert Camus, Jean Hyppolite and Simone de Beauvoir.
Albert Pontremoli, also known as M. Albert Pontremoli,, was a French art collector, lawyer and magistrate of Italian origin.
PROVENANCE Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (probablement acquis auprès de l'artiste, en mai 1872). Rodolphe Hecht, Paris (après 1884). Collection Pontremoli, Paris. Galerie Schmit, Paris (en 1987). Collection particulière, Paris (acquis auprès de celle-ci, en 1988). Puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.