Lot 188: Emilie de Hoa LeBlanc oil landscape painting

Emilie Marie de Hoa LeBlanc (American/New Orleans, 1870-1941) oil on board painting depicting a tree at the center of a landscape, possibly an orchard, on a clear day. Signed lower left. Housed under glass in a molded giltwood period frame. Sight: 11 1/2 in. W x 9 1/2 in. H. Frame: 17 1/2 in. W x 16 in. H. Biography: “Among the first members of the pottery decoration class at Newcomb College, Emilie LeBlanc was awarded a Diploma in Normal Art in 1897. She continued in the Art program as a graduate art student from 1897-1899 and Tulane University retroactively awarded her a Bachelor of Design in 1921. Her younger sister, Marie de Hoa LeBlanc, was also a Newcomb artisan. After their parents’ deaths in the 1910’s, the sisters continued to live at their home. Emilie and Marie were constant companions and never married. They traveled in their summers, always with an introduction from the Archbishop of New Orleans. Emilie died at home in 1941.” Source: The Newcomb Art Museum.

PROVENANCE: The collection of Ruth Weinstein Lebovitz, by descent from her father, B. Bernard Weinstein, M.D., a native of New Orleans. Dr. Weinstein received his medical degree from Tulane in 1937 and was a founder (in 1933) of the Tulane University History of Medicine Society, the oldest student run organization of its kind. He founded and led many international sterility and fertility societies in the United States and abroad, among them the American Society for the Study of Sterility and the International Fertility Association. A portion of his collections are in the Rudolph Matas Library and the Louisiana Research Collections at Tulane University.

CONDITION: Painting in very good condition. Frame with overpainting and surface losses of up 2 inches.