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Theme: Portrait
ID 49 (Ceroni 114)
Girl in a Green Blouse
1917
Alternate titles: Busto di donna con camicetta verde; Femme au corsage vert; La femme blonde au corsage vert; Le Corsage Vert; Le corsage vert / The Green Bodice; Portrait de femme en corsage vert; Portrait de jeune fille; The Green Blouse
Oil on canvas
32 x 18 1/8 in. (81.3 x 46 cm)
Front, upper right: modigliani
Reverse no longer visible
Creation location: Paris, possibly Modigliani residence: 8, rue de la Grande Chaumière
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Chester Dale Collection. (1963.10.45)
Provenance
Madame Carrière (by 1921)1
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (March 19, 1921)2
Madame Bosch (February 8, 1922)… 3
Likely Galerie Druet, Paris (February 26, 1924)4
Marcel Noréro, Paris (likely June 28, 1924)5
[Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection M. Noréro: Tableaux, dessins, aquarelles, pastels, February 14, 1927, lot 80]
Etienne Bignou, Paris (February 14, 1927)6
Chester Dale, New York (April 5, 1927)7
[Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on loan (1943)]8
Chester Dale, New York (October 9, 1951)9
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., by bequest (1963)10
1. Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Floriane Dauberville, Modigliani: Amedeo Modigliani Chez Bernheim-Jeune (Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 2015), 78. Madame Carrière's identity has not been confirmed.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune sold the painting to "Mme. Bosch," who has not been identified.
4. No. 10.542, p. 211, 1909–26; Galerie Druet Records, c. 1902–38; Albert Marquet Research Archives and Galerie Druet Records, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. The Galerie Druet stockbook lists a painting titled "femme assise" with identical dimensions and signature location. This was acquired by the gallery in February 1924 from an unidentified source and sold that June.
5. Dr. Marcel Noréro (1878–1930), a Paris-based collector who is known to have acquired other works from Galerie Druet, may have acquired the painting in June 1924. It was part of his collection by February 1927 when he sold it at auction. The painting is illustrated in the catalogue.
6. Chester Dale Collection, Box 2, Folder 27: Collection Inventory #1, M, circa 1964. Chester Dale papers, circa 1883–2003, bulk 1920–1970. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
7. Ibid.
8. In 1943, the Dales sent a number of works from their substantial art collection to three museums. While the old masters went to the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago received twentieth-century works, including five Modigliani paintings, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art received nineteenth and twentieth-century works, including eleven Modigliani paintings.
9. The return date was confirmed by Jane Joe, Philadelphia Museum of Art, email of February 20, 2026.
10. National Gallery of Art website.
Commentary

The painting has historically been dated 1917, however, the relatively thin paint application echoes the artist's works completed in the South of France and thereafter in Paris. In addition, the door behind the model, which is paneled wood in the lower half with paned glass above, appears in other paintings that are known to have been completed in 1919 in the artist's studio at 8, rue de la Grande Chaumière (Ceroni 332, 333, 334, 335, 336). See also Madame Amédée (Ceroni 282) and Flower Vendor (Ceroni 331).

Exhibitions
1922 Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Modigliani, February 7–21, 1922, no. 22, as Femme au corsage vert.
1927 Glasgow
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, A Century of French Painting, May 1927, no. 54, as Le corsage vert.
1931c New York
Demotte Inc, New York, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884–1920: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, November 7–28, 1931, no. 15, ill. in b/w, as Le corsage vert.
1943–51 Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, October 10, 1943–October 1951, unnum., ill. in b/w, as The Green Blouse, dated 1917.
Published References
Saunier 1922
Saunier, Charles. "Les Arts." L'Europe nouvelle (Paris) 5, no. 8 (February 25, 1922), mentioned p. 243, as La femme blonde au corsage vert.
Cahiers d'Art 1927
"Feuilles volantes: Les expositions à Paris et ailleurs." Cahiers d'Art: Bulletin mensuel d'actualité artistique (Paris) 2, nos. 4–5 (1927), ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 8.
Pfannstiel 1929
Pfannstiel, Arthur. Modigliani: catalogue présumé. Paris: Éditions Marcel Seheur, 1929. Monograph, Catalogue pp. 21–22; ill. in b/w, n.p. (after p. 104), as Le corsage vert.
Dale 1929b
Dale, Maud. Modigliani. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Monograph, no. 37, ill. in b/w, as Le Corsage Vert.
Dale 1929c
Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1929, no. 100, ill. in b/w, as Le Corsage Vert.
Horter 1930
Horter, Earl. Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani. Philadelphia: H. C. Perleberg, 1930, pl. 38, ill. in b/w.
Read 1930
Read, Helen Appleton. "The Chester Dale Collection." Vogue (New York) 75, no. 4 (February 15, 1930), ill. in b/w (in situ), p. 81.
Dale 1931
Dale, Maud. "Modigliani." Formes: Revue Internationale des Arts Plastiques (Paris), no. 18 (October 1931), ill. in b/w, n.p., as Le corsage vert / The Green Bodice.
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1943
Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943, ill. in b/w, n.p., as The Green Blouse.
Pfannstiel 1956
Pfannstiel, Arthur. Modigliani et son œuvre. Paris: Bibliotèque des Arts, 1956. Monograph, no. 137, as Le corsage vert.
Ceroni 1970
Ceroni, Ambrogio. I dipinti di Modigliani. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1970. Monograph, no. 114, ill. in b/w, p. 93, as Busto di donna con camicetta verde.
Dauberville and Dauberville 2015
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice and Floriane Dauberville. Amedeo Modigliani Chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 2015. Monograph, no. 20, ill. in b/w, p. 79, as Portrait de jeune fille.
Record last updated April 10, 2026. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Modigliani Initiative. "Girl in a Green Blouse, 1917 (ID 49)." In Amedeo Modigliani Digital Catalogue. catalogue.modigliani-initiative.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=49 (accessed on May 11, 2026).