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Detailed oil paint portrait depicts a seated woman clothed in a black dress, pearl jewelry, and white gloves.

A light-skinned woman with brown eyes and dark hair gazes slightly to her right with a neutral expression. She is seated against a dark background. Visible from the waist up, she wears a black dress with a lace collar and short sleeves. Around her neck are two strings of pearls, and she wears looped pearl earrings. Wearing a double strand of pearls atop her head, her hair is parted down the middle and pulled back. Her hands rest in her lap, displaying pearl bracelets on her bare right forearm. Fabric is draped over her left arm, with her left gloved hand visible, holding the right glove.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.218
People
Théodore Chassériau, French (Ste. Barbe de Samana, S. America 1819 - 1856 Paris)
Title
Portrait of a Young Woman with Pearl Necklaces
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Portrait de Jeune Femme aux Colliers de Perles
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1841
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230040

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
79.38 x 65.41 cm (31 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: c.r: T. Chassieriau, 1841

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Duc de Trévise, 1931, sold; [his sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 19, 1938, no. 21]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Léonce Bénédite gives duc de Trevise as owner in 1931 catalogue.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.218
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Léonce Bénédite, Théodore Chassériau, sa vie et son oeuvre, Braun et Cie (Paris, France, 1931), vol. I, p. 131, repr.
  • Catalogue des tableaux et dessins du XIXme siècle par Carpeaux, Chasseriau, Corot, Delacroix, oeuvres importantes de Géricault..., auct. cat., Galerie Jean Charpentier (Paris, May 19, 1938), no. 21, repr.
  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chassériau, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), p. 17
  • Marc Sandoz, Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856: catalogue raisonné des peintures et estampes, Arts et Metiers Graphiques (Paris, France, 1974), no. 88, pl. LXXI
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 102; repr. as no. 282

Exhibition History

  • Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • France and the Portrait, 1799-1870, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/03/1994 - 01/29/2002

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