Drawing Detail
Portrait of M-me Jules GuillemetArtist: Edouard Manet
Medium: Drawings, Italian pencil, 31.3x22 cm
Date: c. 1880
Genre: Portrait
Source: Leningrad State Purchasing Commission, 1938
M-me Guillemet , her husband and her younger sister Margarita were close friends of the artist and repeatedly sat to him. The Hermitage drawing is associated with the Portrait of M-me Jules Guillemet Wearing a Hat produced in pastel around 1880. Probably the artist strove not only to convey the likeness but also to create a sort of a generalized image of a young Parisian woman.