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Portrait of a Woman
Creator
Sophie Fremiet (later Rude)French Artist · 1797–1867
All works by this person →Hailing from an artistic family, Sophie Fremiet began her training in Dijon at a young age. Her maternal grandfather, Louis-Gabriel Monnier, was the first director of the Dijon Museum and a revered engraver in the city, a talent he passed on to Fremiet’s mother. Her father, Louis Fremiet, had a commercial background—he was a merchant in second-hand clothes (*marchand fripier*) who later became a t
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1818
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Paintings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 3eec7ab5-9649-4959-ab45-55c9b254f2f1
From the Getty Museum record
A poised young woman with cascading ringlets of dark hair sits before us in a tastefully appointed interior. She is fashionably dressed in a dark blue silk dress trimmed with lace, deep orange cashmere shawl, and ornate pearl jewelry. The fan in her left hand and the opera glass and sheer, feathered bonnet on the table beside her hints at a stimulating evening out at the theater. Exhibited by Fremiet at the Brussels Salon of 1818, her public debut, this large-scale painting established her as a professional portraitist and highlighted her particular skill in rendering different fabrics and materials. Possibly depicting a fellow French émigré, *Portrait of a Woman* shows how thoroughly Fremiet had assimilated the late neoclassical manner of Jacques-Louis David, her teacher in Brussels and arguably the most celebrated painter in Europe at the time. David recognized Fremiet’s talents early on, entrusting her to copy some of his famous works from this period, including *The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis* ([87.PA.27][1]). [1]: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RJ0
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