Marie Julie Pamphile Berthe de Béhague de Ganay
Title: Comtesse de Ganay
Birthname: Marie Julie Pamphile Berthe de Béhague
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 1868
Date of death: 194o
Category: collector
Birthname: Marie Julie Pamphile Berthe de Béhague
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 1868
Date of death: 194o
Category: collector
Identity:
She was the sister of Beatrice Winans (Comtesse de Béarn) (1884-1907). She was the wife of Charles Alexandre Anne Jean de Ganay, Comte de Ganay (1861-1948) and mother of Octave Marie Hubert de Ganay, Marquis de Ganay (1888-1974). She was thus remotely related to Whistler through his half-brother, William McNeill Whistler (1836-1900).
Life:
She was given or inherited Head of a Peasant Woman y021.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980
