Woman Painter at Easel

Vivant Denon

Associated Names
Vivant Denon

Artist, French, 1747 - 1825

The image shows two individuals seated in profile view beside an artist's easel. There is a person with curly hair on the left, and another person with a headscarf on the right. The person on the left has one hand raised to their mouth, while the person on the right is drawing on the canvas. A small dog is on the floor in the foreground, and there is a window in the background casting light into the room with draped curtains.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.8 x 15.5 cm (7 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
    plate: 18.5 x 15.2 cm (7 5/16 x 6 in.)
    mount: 23.4 x 20.9 cm (9 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.139.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chu 1988, no. 44

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1988

  • Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate. Dominique Vivant Denon. French Masters of the nineteenth century. The Illustrated Bartsch, vol 121, 2 parts. New York, 1988, no. 44

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right on mount, in graphite: L615; by later hand, lower center on mount, in graphite: V. Denon/ No. 127./5.; by later hand, upper right verso of mount, in graphite, L615/1290

Wikidata ID

Q76558983

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