Study Head of a Woman

Artist Louise Faulque French, 1855–1914

Date1884

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 22 × 18 1/8 × 7/8 in. (55.9 × 46 × 2.2 cm)
height, width, and depth (Framed): 27 7/8 × 24 × 2 1/4 in. (70.8 × 61 × 5.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number2024.27.1

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ProvenanceCreated Paris, 1884. Collection of the artist; by descent within the Faulque (or Fauque) family, until 2024; [Exper antic, Barcelona, March 23, 2024, no. 25, as Portrait de Femme des Antilles]; [Imperial Art, Paris, jointly owned with Colnaghi Elliott, London, 2024]; sold to NCMA, 2024.Published ReferencesSociété des amis des arts du département de Seine-et-Oise, Description des Ouvrages de Peinture…exposés dans les salles du Musée de Versailles (Versailles: Château de Versailles, 1884), no. 175, as Tête d’étude.

“Exposition de Versailles,” La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité, Supplément a la Gazette des Beaux-Arts,” no. 31, October 4, 1884, 434.

Société des Amis des Arts du département de la Somme, 27e Exposition 1885, Catalogue (Amiens, France, 1885), no. 206, as Tête de Négresse (étude).
Exhibition HistoryExhibition of the Société des Amis des Arts de Seine-et-Oise, Château de Versailles, July 13–October 8, 1884, Second-class silver medal, no. 175, as Tête d’étude.

Exhibition of the Société des Amis des Arts du département de la Somme, Amiens, France, June 28–July 31, 1885, no. 206, as Tête de Négresse (étude). Object Rights Statement

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