Detail of Faustine Leo by Lehmann in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Faustine Léo (1832–1865)
1842


Object Details

Title: Faustine Léo (1832–1865)

Artist: Henri Lehmann (French, Kiel 1814–1882 Paris)

Date: 1842

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 39 3/8 x 32 in. (100 x 81.3 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Purchase, Wolfe Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Richardson Gift, 2004

Accession Number: 2004.243


Lehmann executed several portraits, both painted and drawn, of his first cousin Faustine Léo. This portrait clearly emulates the example of his master, Ingres, notably in its smooth, polished surface and the crisply delineated contours of the figure. Yet its intensely saturated palette and intimate mood set Lehmann's work apart from that of Ingres. The portrait bears its original frame.

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