Portrait de Mme. E. D.
Paul Delaroche
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.)
- Genre
- prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)chalkprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
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.