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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This picture shows the head, upper torso and hands of a woman dressed in black, slumped in an upholstered chair with her eyes dozily cast down. Her hair is tied back and she wears a ring with a stone on the fourth finger of her left hand. The sitter could be the poet Louise Colet, infamous as the inspiration for Emma Bovary in the novel by her one-time lover Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). The decadent pose, influenced by works of Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), notably Demoiselles des bords de la Seine, anticipates that employed in many of Tissot's later portraits of fashionable ladies. | Subjects: | Louise; Colet Henriette); interior figure; portrait (Colet | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Tissot, James (French painter and printmaker, 1836-1902) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8539... | Go to resource |
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