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| Portrait of a Woman |
Artist:Henri Fantin-Latour (French, Grenoble 1836–1904 Buré)
Date:1885
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:39 1/2 x 32 in. (100.3 x 81.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1910
A notebook kept by Fantin’s wife is said to record the circumstances surrounding this picture. The sitter called herself Mme Leroy, a name the artist suspected was false; and she insisted on paying for her portrait in advance. She was accompanied to some of her sittings by an American named Becker, who also commissioned a likeness of himself from Fantin, dated the following year (Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.). The couple’s full identities, and the nature of their relationship, remain unknown.
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