The 1907 Migration: Why Blanche Denise Ferrero-Willmann’s Move to America Refutes the Bugatti Dating
Of all the biographical facts that undermine the standard 1920–1930 dating of the Rembrandt Bugatti portrait bust, the most decisive is the simplest: Blanche Denise Ferrero-Willmann left Paris in 1907. The Ferrero family emigrated to the United States that year. There is no documented evidence that Blanche Denise returned to Paris at any point thereafter. […]