Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2015.

Portrait of a Young Girl

Artist Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (French, 1851 - 1913)

CultureFrench

Date1880

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions24 1/4 × 18 1/8 in. (61.6 × 46 cm)
Overall, Frame: 31 1/2 × 25 1/2 in. (80 × 64.8 cm)

SignedSigned and dated lower left: "MB de Monvel. 1880."

Credit LineGift of the Joseph T. Waldo family in honor of Jeff Harrison, Chief Curator Emeritus of the Chrysler Museum of Art

Object number2015.20

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 216

DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting, 24 1/4 x 18 1/8 inches in size. It is framed in a nineteenth-century French oak and composition frame, 31 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches in size. It shows a young girl holding a rose in her right hand and looking at the viewer. She wears a yellow dress with blue bow at the neck, and a blue bow in her hair. Signed and dated lower left: MB de Monvel. 1880. On the verso tacked to the lower piece of the stretcher is a small piece of paper on which is inscribed in ink: Madame Delpire / Mai 1915. There is a label on the backing board from the dealers Schiller and Bodo in New York.

Label TextLouis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel French, 1851–1913 Portrait of a Young Girl, 1880 Oil on canvas The subject of this endearing portrait is unknown, but it is painted with precision and control. Like his contemporaries Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Henri Fantin-Latour, Boutet de Monvel learned those skills at the École des Beaux-Arts, in Paris. He is better known, hoever, as an acclaimed illustrator of children's books, such as Joan of Arc (1896). Gift of the Joseph T. Waldo family in honor of Jeff Harrison, Chief Curator Emeritus of the Chrysler Museum of Art 2015.20ProvenancePrivate collection, France. To auction at Piasa, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 25, 2013, no. 36. To Schiller & Bodo, LLC, 4 East 81st Street, New York, NY 10028 from 2013–2014. Purchased from Schiller & Bodo by Joseph T. Waldo, Norfolk, VA, in 2014. Gift of Joseph Waldo to Chrysler Museum of Art, December 2015.