Portrait de Mme. E. D.
Paul Delaroche (French, 1797-1856)
1829
- Medium
- Black, white, and red chalks, with stumping and erasing on ivory wove paper, perimeter mounted to Japanese paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 24 × 18.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Delaroche sought to infuse his works with great emotional and moral expressiveness. Rendered with the soft-focus, “porthole” perspective of contemporary daguerreotype photography, this unidentified female portrait blends the romantic pose of a melancholy woman with the delicacy of an Ingres odalisque. It is unclear how the amorous couple at the door in the background relates to the contemplative woman.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
