The Published Claim: Text Under Correction

The catalog and auction literature has described this work with a date range of approximately 1920–1930 and has identified the sitter as Blanche Denise Ferrero-Willmann without further biographical context. This is the text under correction in this dossier. The correction does not dispute the identity of the sitter. It disputes the date range and the absence of biographical context. The corrected version should name Blanche Denise as a documented historical person, give the probable date as circa 1904, explain the biographical basis for that date, note that the 1920–1930 range is contested, and acknowledge that Rembrandt Bugatti died in 1916, making the late date impossible for any directly supervised commission.