Mrs. Gompel was the wife of Gustave Gompel, one of the founders of the department stores "Aux dames de France".
Society of French Artists, Explanation of the works painting, sculpture, architecture, engraving and lithography by living artists: Exhibited at the Grand-Palais des Champs-Elysées, 1923, Paris, n° 663, cited p. 34, not reproduced. - La Revue des Beaux-Arts, Provincial Union of Decorative Arts, n° 397, June 1, 1923, cited p. 7, not reproduced. - La Vie Latine, Permanent Bureau of the Latin Press of Europe and America, n° 5, June 1924, reproduced p. 14 under the title The Lady in Black. Exhibition: Salon des Artistes français, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, April 30, 1923, no. 663. There is a print of this work made by the American photographer Thérèse Bonney in 1926 (University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library & Historical Library of the City of Paris, NV-006-03237).