Woman Looking at Watteau Drawings in the Louvre

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Woman Looking at Watteau Drawings in the Louvre

Paul-César HelleuLinkedCulture matchlcp-94b1cf21ca39

Date
c. 1895
Medium
Drypoint printed in black and sepia
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
56202

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Paul-César Helleu loved his wife, Alice, and he loved the rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau, so he combined the two in this stunning print. The elegant Helleu was the toast of fin-de-siècle Paris and made portraits of the most celebrated society women of his day. Nevertheless, his favorite model was always Alice, whom he met when commissioned to paint her portrait when she was fourteen years old. Helleu was a master of drypoint, which he used here to great effect to draw us to Alice, so we may mirror her act of looking. France, Europe

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The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916

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