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UnknownThe first time model: the enigmatic young bohemian girl in traditional dressca 1880
ca 1880
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I love the feisty attitude of the girl depicted! With her hand on her hip, she seems to be saying to the artist: "Whatya looking at anyway?" She looks like she has a good head on her shoulders and her feet firmly on the ground. She's no professional artist's model, that much is certain. She is not finding it necessary to put on a smile. There is nothing artificial about her, and her face shows her every emotion.
I have not been able to identify her costume: she might be a bohemian girl, or a peasant girl from the South of Europe. The materials on which the picture is painted, notably the stamped French 6M strecher, are from a metropolitan colour merchants' . This is not something you would have been able find in the countryside, and it is hence likely that the artist was on a study trip abroad, curious about locol cultures and costumes. How interesting it would be to know how the artist and his model met!
Size of the canvas measured without its frame: 46 x 27 cm.
- Creation Year:ca 1880
- Dimensions:Height: 22.45 in (57 cm)Width: 16.54 in (42 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:unique piecePrice: $1,800
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- Condition:Old wear and rubbing, cleaned and restored, inpainting visible under UV light Light wear and soe visible rapair to the original leaf gold frame.
- Gallery Location:Norwich, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU991312972162
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