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A REVERIE

Creator(s): Frédéric Joseph Pierre Timothée Soulacroix (Painter)

Currently in storage


About this object

In an interior, there is a young woman seated on a rose-red velvet couch. She reclines against the back of the couch which has a striped pattern. She is facing almost full front. Her hair is swept up and she has a band around her head. She wears a yellow satin dress with short sleeves in the Empire style. The dress has a long train and a shirred bodice and sleeves. She holds in her outstretched right hand a small blue book, and in her left is a handkercheif. At the left is a tripod table in Empire style on which rest three books, a glass vase with roses and a brown ceramic vase with a palm. Behins this table is a window with pleated curtains. The wallpaper has a scalloped pattern on it.

Object name:
A REVERIE
Made from:
Oil on canvas
Made in:
FRANCE
Date made:
19th c.
Size:
Framed: 41 × 29 in. (104.1 × 73.7 cm) Unfrmaed: 29 5/8 × 17 1/2 in. (75.2 × 44.5 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
51.210
Class:
PAINTING
Signature marks:
SIGNATURE lower right corner: F. Soulacroix Florence
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973