Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-1926
Study from the Nude, Woman Asleep
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Theodore Roussel
French, worked in England, 1847-19261890–94
Study from the Nude, Woman Asleep
Theodore Roussel French, worked in England, 1847-1926 →lithographpaper
Date
1890–94
Medium
Transfer lithograph in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.7 × 24 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 20.5 × 32.4 cm (8 1/8 × 12 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg
The Pettigrew sisters—Hetty, Lily, and Rose—began modeling in their teens, posing first for John Everett Millais and then for Walter Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, Edward Linley Sambourne, and Hamo Thornycroft. Whistler employed all three sisters for his transfer lithographs in the early 1890s, sometimes along with a child, who has been identified as a Pettigrew niece. Hetty was Roussel’s principal model, seen in his most famous painting, The Reading Girl (1886/87; Tate Gallery).
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