Octave Marie Hubert de Ganay
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 1888
Date of death: 1974
Category: collector
Date of birth: 1888
Date of death: 1974
Category: collector
Identity:
He was the son of Marie Julie Pamphile Berthe de Béhague, Comtesse de Ganay (1868-1940) and Charles Alexandre Anne Jean de Ganay, Comte de Ganay (1861-1948), and nephew of Beatrice Winans (Comtesse de Béarn) (1884-1907) and Henri Louis Elie Joseph de Galard de Béarn (1874-1947), Comte de Brassac. He was remotely related to Whistler through Whistler's half-brother William McNeill Whistler (1836-1900).
Life:
He inherited Head of a Peasant Woman y021 and sold it to the University of Glasgow.
Bibliography:
Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 .
