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Painting by Jean-Jacques Henner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woman on a Black Divan (French: La femme au divan noir), also known simply as Recumbent Woman (Femme couchée) is a 1869 painting by the French artist Jean-Jacques Henner. It is one of the 44 Henner paintings of the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Mulhouse. Its inventory number is D.58.1.22.[1][2]
Woman on a Black Divan | |
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Artist | Jean-Jacques Henner |
Year | 1869 |
Medium | oil paint on canvas |
Movement | Academic art nude |
Subject | A naked woman on a divan |
Dimensions | 93 cm × 180 cm (37 in × 71 in)[1] |
Location | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse |
Accession | 1869 |
The painting was shown at the Paris Salon of 1869, and bought for the collection of the Société industrielle de Mulhouse (from which the Musée des Beaux-Arts originated) by the widow of Daniel Dollfus the same year. A much smaller version of the painting is kept in the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, in Paris, since 1923.[1][3]
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