Lucie Esnault Reading a Book (c.1905). Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942). Oil on canvas.This
Lucie Esnault Reading a Book (c.1905). Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861-1942). Oil on canvas.This painting of Lucie Esnault here is one of his later paintings of the young woman, absorbed in a book, possibly in Blanche’s own salon. It is also a portrait of an interior and may be compared with another painting of Esnault in which she is seated in a chair in profile in a salon, wearing the same white dress. Models like Esnault allowed Blanche a freedom to explore beyond the limitations of certain compositions in a way a commissioned society portrait could not. -- source link
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