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Portrait of Alexandrine Patchenko, the Painter’s Sister-in-Law
Also titled Portret van Alexandrine Patchenko, de schoonzuster van de schilderes
Marie Constantine Bashkirtseff (ca. –1884)
1881
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 15 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of M. Bashkirtseff-Bananine, Nice
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Born in Ukraine, Marie Bashkirtseff grew up in Nice and Paris. She studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and subsequently exhibited her work frequently. Concurrent with painting this portrait of her sister-inlaw, she played an active role in the French women’s movement. Bashkirtseff was only 25 when she died of tuberculosis. The intimate diaries she kept since the age of 12 propelled her to fame as a writer as well.
