Paul Delaroche
French, 1797-1856
Portrait de Mme. E. D.
INV-1912
Paul Delaroche
French, 1797-18561829
Portrait de Mme. E. D.
Paul Delaroche French, 1797-1856 →prints and drawingchalk
Date
1829
Medium
Black, white, and red chalks, with stumping and erasing on ivory wove paper, perimeter mounted to Japanese paper
Dimensions
24 × 18.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Regenstein Endowment Fund
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.
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