Detail of Marguerite Wearing a Hat by Matisse in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Marguerite Wearing a Hat

Artist: Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice)

Date: 1918

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: H.31-1/2 x W. 25-1/4 in. (80 x 64.1 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002

Accession Number: 2002.456.15

From the time she was a toddler until her 1923 marriage to the Byzantine scholar Georges Duthuit, Marguerite Matisse was her father's most frequent model. After his death, Marguerite devoted herself to the organization of Matisse's archives and the cataloguing of his work.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/492737