Ferdinand Bac Woman 1900

Elegant woman dressed in black sitting at a table on which rest two glasses of champagne and a bottle in a bucket. She holds a black domino in her hand. The watercolor is signed lower right f Bac and dated 92. A label with the number 19 printed is stuck on the glass, probably an exhibition number. The watercolor is framed in a natural stained wood frame. In the absence of frames, it measures 19.8x27.2 cm Ferdinand Bac (1859-1952) was born in Stuttgart in Wutenberg, son of Heinrich Bach who would be a natural son of Jérôme Bonaparte, one of Napoleon's brothers. Well-connected in French high society, he began his career as a painter, illustrator and writer, frequenting musicians such as Verdi, Gounod, Richard Wagner as well as writers such as Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Marcel Proust and Guy de Maupassant. He also took care of garden design for wealthy friends.