Hahlo-100, Mlle. Furtbauer plaquette

American Numismatic Society, 1987.147.154.

100. Mlle. Furtbauer at the piano. Plaquette. Paris.

This plaquette was created in 1900 in Paris and there has long been confusion around the identity of the sitter. Brenner exhibited the plaquette often, and with different titles. In the 1900 Paris Exposition she is called “Woman at the Piano.” In the 1907 Grolier show it was “Mlle. C at the piano”—possibly a typo—and in 1918 at the Carnegie in Pittsburgh she is called “At the Piano, Portrait Study.” In Thomas Louis Comparette’s 1914 Catalogue of Coins, Tokens, and Medals in the Numismatic Collection of the Mint of the United States at Philadelphia, she is mistakenly conflated with Brenner’s portrait of Katrina Trask (see #94).