Portrait of a Woman
A notebook kept by Fantin’s wife is said to record the circumstances surrounding this picture. The sitter called herself Mme Leroy, a name the artist suspected was false; and she insisted on paying for her portrait in advance. She was accompanied to some of her sittings by an American named Becker, who also commissioned a likeness of himself from Fantin, dated the following year (Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.). The couple’s full identities, and the nature of their relationship, remain unknown.
Artwork Details
- Title: Portrait of a Woman
- Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, Grenoble 1836–1904 Buré)
- Date: 1885
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 39 1/2 x 32 in. (100.3 x 81.3 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1910
- Object Number: 10.41
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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