Portrait de vielles femmes
1895
Medium
drypoint in brown on japan paper
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, gift in memory of Virginia H. Jackson
Accession Number
1996.151.183
Art Historical Context
Georges Jeanniot's *Portrait de vieilles femmes (Portrait of Old Women), created in 1895, the quiet dignity of its subjects through the intimate medium of drypoint A French artist and close associate of Edgar Degas, Jeanniot was renowned for his sensitive portrayals of everyday life, blending realist observation with a touch of impressionistic warmth. This print, housed in the National Gallery of's Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, reflects the fin-de-siècle fascination with human character and aging, rendered in soft brown ink on delicate Japan paper—a luxurious, thin sheet prized by print...