# Young Girl in Profile

- By: Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925)
- Date: 1891
- Medium: drypoint on ivory wove paper
- Classification: Print
- 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
- Credit line: Gift of Jane Glaubinger
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2024.10)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2024.10/2024.10_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.