Portrait of a woman’s profile with her hair styled into an updo and her dress dipping into a rounded neckline.
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Portrait of a woman’s smiling, right side profile. Her hair is styled into an updo, braided up the back, with loose tendrils that curl around her face and neck. A large pendant earring hangs from her ear, the only piece of jewelry visible in the work. Though the portrait lacks color, the woman’s long-sleeved dress appears to be dark, similar in shade to her hair. The dress’s rounded neckline dips low with a thin rim of lace bordering its edge.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.87
People
Marie Guilhelmine Benoist, French (Paris 1768 - 1826 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Mademoiselle Carnot
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1800
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294651

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on white wove paper
Dimensions
diameter: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.)
frame: 14 × 14 cm (5 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., black chalk: Benoist . . . 18[05?]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Alfredo Masetti
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.87
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 8, repr.

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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