Identification

Published titles

English: The young maid.
French: La servante; La petit servante.

Date

1916?
(all author date in 1916 - 2013 ex. in 1918?)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

72.5 × 54 cm.

Signature

Signed modiglian at top left in red.

Present location

Zürich Kunsthaus, Switzerland? (probably not any more)

Catalogue numbers

Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.

Provenance

1. Unknown
2. Leopold Zborowski, Paris
3. Bing et Cie, Paris
4. Hoepli Collection, Milano
5. Ulrico Hoepli Fondation, Milano
6. Zürich Kunsthaus, Switzerland ?
   (Donation Ulrico Hoepli Fondation?, Milano in 1927)

The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.

Selected bibliography

Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1927, pl. 1
  
• Catalogue collection Kunsthaus Zurich, 1927, nº 97
  
• Scheiwiller, Editions des Chroniques du jour, Paris, 1928, pl. 1
  
• Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 11 - nº 3
  
• Taguchi, Modigliani, Alier-Sha Tokyo, 1936, pl. 2
  
• Catalogue collection Kunsthaus Zurich, 19367, pl. 157
  
• Carli, Amedeo Modigliani, De Luca, Roma 1952, pl. 5
  
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 74
  
• Lavagnino, L'arte Moderna, Turin, 1958, p. 103
  
• Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Exhib. catalogue Palazzo Reale, Edizioni dell'ente manifestazioni Milanesi, Milano, 1958, pl. 21
  
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 69
  
• Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 66
  
• Pavolini, Modigliani, Union Générale d'Éditions en accord avec l'Unesco, Milano 1966, pl. 7
  
• Gindertael, Shop libre diffusion, 1967, pl. 14
  
• Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 24
  
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 124
  
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 124
  
• Hubbard, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Lamplight Publ. New York, 1975, pl. 14, p. 24
  
• Gindertael, 1976, pl. 14
  
• Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, p. 122 - nº 35
  
• Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 99
  
• Parisot, Modigliani, E. Graphis Arte, 1988, p. 103
  
• Orion Press, Tokyo, 1989 - nº 28
  
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 92 - nº 43
  
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 12/1916
  
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 127
  
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p.79
  
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
  
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani et l'Ecole de Paris, June-November 2013, pp. 46-47

Exhibitions

• Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925?
  
• Zurich, Collection, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1927 - nº 97
  
• Zurich, Collection, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1930 - nº 136
  
• Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 ?
  
• Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 ?
  
• Zurich, Collection, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1935 - nº 617
  
• Zurich, Collection, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1950 - nº 18
  
• Roma, Modigliani, IV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1951-1952
  
• Bern, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, Kunsthalle, 1955 - nº 12
  
• Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - nº 34 - dated 1916
  
• Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - nº 21
  
• Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna,  1959 - nº 14
  
• Wolfsburg, 1961 - nº 101
  
• Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, 1963 - nº 15
  
• Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - nº 25
  
• London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - nº 25
  
• Zurich, Collection, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1975
  
• Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - nº 35
  
• Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - nº 38
  
• Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 - nº 38
  
• Martigny, Modigliani & the School of Paris, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2013 - nº 11

Notes

This investigation marks the work as no. 185 in the D’Atri papers, size 73 x 54 - dated 1916 - provenance in Zborowski.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.

This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.