Jacques-Émile BLANCHE (1861-1942) Marquis de Granby, 9th Duke of Rutland, ca. 1908 Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower right. 35 x 27 cm Provenance : Armand Pierhal Collection. Bibliography: Jane Roberts and Muriel Molines, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Catalogue raisonné online, www.jeblanche-catalogue.com, reproduced under no. RM 1533. This is a study for the portrait of the Marquis de Granby listed in the catalog raisonné under no. RM956. Armand Pierhal (1897-1976), novelist, essayist, poet, journalist, art and music critic, editor, translator and adapter, must have met Blanche in 1926. He wrote the preface to the catalog of the Jacques-Émile Blanche exhibition at Galerie Jean Charpentier in 1929, as well as an article in L'Art vivant. He prepared the "Hommage à Jacques-Émile Blanche" broadcast on October 15, 1961.