About this artwork
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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Currently Off View
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Paul Delaroche
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Title
- Portrait de Mme. E. D.
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Origin
- France
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Date
- 1829
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Medium
- Black, white, and red chalks, with stumping and erasing on ivory wove paper, perimeter mounted to Japanese paper
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Dimensions
- 240 × 188 mm
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Credit Line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
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Reference Number
- 2007.294
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