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See it in a room
Story
A woman sits in a red chair, dressed in black with white drapery folds across her, holding a paintbrush as she faces forward against a plain brown backdrop. The painting, titled Madame Leopold Gravier, was made in 1889 by Henri Fantin-Latour using oil, and it is held at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. It came into the collection through the William Arnold Healy Fund. Fantin-Latour, who lived from 1836 to 1904, worked within French Realism and also painted Homage to Delacroix. One detail worth noticing is the way the loose white fabric breaks up the solid black of her dress, catching light against the otherwise plain, shadowed brown setting behind her, giving the quiet portrait a sense of calm concentration as she holds her brush steady in her hand.
Where it works
Muted artwork suited to bedrooms and dining rooms, and to hotel guest rooms, in a vertical format.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The William Arnold Healy Fund, 1926.1327