Carolus-Duran
French, 1837–1917
Spanish Woman (Portrait of Eva Gonzalès?)
1876
The black shawl draped around this woman’s shoulders resembles a traditional mantilla—a lace veil often worn in Spain. Paintings of Spanish subjects were quite fashionable in Paris in the 1870s, though this work was probably intended as a portrait. Its small scale and loose brushwork contrast with the detailed, full-length portraits that made Carolus-Duran famous. The sitter could be the artist Eva Gonzalés—daughter of Spanish novelist Emmanuel Gonzalés—who may have visited Carolus-Duran’s studio in 1876.
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (26.7 x 21 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.671 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Carolus-Duran, Spanish Woman (Portrait of Eva Gonzalès?), 1876, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.671
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Miscellaneous 19th Century Artists, Supplement. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Serling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five, Supplement: South Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959.
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. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963.
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.
Weinberg, H. Barbara. The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Simpson, Marc, et al. Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1997.
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.
Augé, Jean-Louis. Carolus-Duran: 18371917. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2003.
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Provenance
Robert Sterling Clark (until 1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
