The Veil

1. Marguerite Freson-Khnopff, Liège [Delevoy, de Croës and Ollinger-Zinque 1987]. Bernard Thibaud de Maisières, Brussels, by 1969 [Toronto 1969]. Galerie L’Ecuyer, Brussels [Delevoy, de Croës and Ollinger-Zinque 1987]. The Piccadilly Gallery, London, 1970 [Delevoy, de Croës and Ollinger-Zinque 1987]. Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris [Delevoy, de Croës and Ollinger-Zinque 1987]. Private collection, Paris, by 1980 [Hamburg 1980]. Sold by Dorset Enterprises Ltd., London, to the Art Institute, 1990.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Turin, Italy, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, "Il Sacro e il Profano," 1969, cat. 242; also traveled to The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, November1-November 26, 1969, cat. 219.
• London, Piccadilly Gallery, "Symbolists 1860-1925," June 2-July 4, 1970, cat. 38.
• Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, "Symbolists," 1970.
• New York, Spencer A. Samuels, "Symbolists," 1970, cat. 79.
• Paris, "F. Khnopff," 1979-1980, cat. 16; also traveled to Brussels and Hamburg.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "Max Klinger “A Glove”: Tradition, Fashion and Fantasy," Dec 10, 1993–May 15, 1994, no cat.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec, Canada: "Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe", June 8-October 15, 1995.
• Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, "Fernand Khnopff", January 16-May 2, 2004; and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, June 2-September 5, 2004, cat. 58, reprod. p. 126.
• New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 54; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.

• Francine C. Legrand, Le Symbolisme en Belgique (Brussels, 1971), p. 56, pl. 29.
• John Milner, Symbolists and Decadents (London, 1971), p. 103 (ill.).
• Robert L. Delevoy, Journal du Symbolisme (Geneva, 1977), p. 86 (ill.).
• Robert L. Delevoy, Catherine de Croës, Gisele Ollinger-Zinque, Fernand Khnopff (Brussels, 1987), p. 239, no. 105 (ill.).

Reclining Woman

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Head of a Woman (Fernande)

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The Railway Crossing (Sketch)

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In the Café

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Composition in Blue

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Accordion Player

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Divers on a Yellow Background

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The Red Table

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