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Young Girl in Profile
Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925)
1891
- Medium
- drypoint on ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 21.9 x 14.9 cm (8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Switzerland
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Jane Glaubinger
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This print depicts Hélène Chatenay, a seamstress who became Félix Vallotton’s partner during the 1890s. The two lived together in Paris’s Latin Quarter until Vallotton abruptly married Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques in 1899 and assumed her haut bourgeois lifestyle. During their years together, Chatenay was a frequent model for Vallotton and the profile view seen here was also realized as a drawing two years earlier.
