A Young Woman in Profile by Henry Tonks http://www.nga.gov/artworks/76164-young-woman-profile
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions lower right in graphite: HT 1896; by later hand
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions lower right in graphite: HT 1896; by later hand
right has brown hair and leans forward as she holds up a blue plate with her right hand
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
She holds her left hand, to our right, to that cheek so the elbow is close to the
.; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: Master-but more lively; by later
26 – October 4, 2009 Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions on verso, by unknown hand
Her right hand rests on the top of a stump, which comes up to her hip.
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions by unknown hand, lower center on mount printed
.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 4; by later hand, beneath bird’s breast
left: 1511 / AD [artist’s monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand
The sitter initially held his left hand higher, at waist level [fig2].