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)
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
On View
Not on view“Le Salon de Versailles,” Journal de Versailles no. 867 (July 27, 1884), 2.
“Versailles (Récompenses),” Journal des artistes no. 39 (September 28, 1884), 3.
“Exposition de Versailles,” La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité, Supplément a la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 31 (October 4, 1884), 434.
Jean Alesson, La Gazette des femmes: revue du progrès des femmes dans les beaux-arts et la littérature, l'enseignement et la charité, la musique et le théâtre no. 19 (October 10, 1884), 146.
Société 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, 1885), 8, no. 177.
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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