Portrait of Desirée Manfred (The Summer Girl)
Jacques-Émile Blanche
Details
- Artist
- Jacques-Émile Blanche
- Title
- Portrait of Desirée Manfred (The Summer Girl)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 157 x 117 cm
- Details
Signed lower right: J. E. Blanche
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This work was included in the Collectors Exhibition 2016 and is no longer on consignment with Lauraine Diggins Fine Art. For any enquiries, please contact the Gallery.
Further Information
Dated by Jane Roberts to 1904 this painting portrays one of Blanche’s favorite models in informal pose, seated on the arm of a delicate fauteuil. The subject, a beautiful young woman named Denise Manfred, was one of Blanche’s favorite models, whom he painted no less than thirteen times. She is something of a mysterious figure, Desirée Manfred almost certainly not being her real name, but chosen because of some romantic Byronic connection of her own (or her mother’s) invention.
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