Portrait of a Woman

1864

This portrait was painted in 1864, the year Henner returned to Paris from Rome, where he had been studying for five years. The sitter cannot be identified, and the work could have been painted in either Italy or France. Henner’s study of Italian Renaissance paintings inspired him to soften the contours of this woman’s features, a technique that became characteristic of his work.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	21 7/8 x 18 5/16 in. (55.6 x 46.5 cm) Frame: 28 1/2 x 25 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. (72.4 x 64.5 x 6.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.763
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jean-Jacques Henner, Portrait of a Woman, 1864, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.763

Select Bibliography

Cunningham, Charles C., et al. The Elegant Academics: Chroniclers of 19th-Century Parisian Life. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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