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Look at the pale blue eyes with no pupils, then follow her bent arm from the hand at her chin down to the warm ochre back of the chair.
Jeanne Hébuterne was a young artist when she met Modigliani in March 1917. They lived together, had a daughter and were engaged to marry, and he painted her more than twenty times; this portrait dates from 1919. He died in Paris in January 1920, aged 35, and Hébuterne, expecting their second child, died two days later.
Oil on canvas · 36 × 28 3/4 in. (91.4 × 73 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · School of Paris
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Jeanne Hébuterne
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, Livorno 1884–1920 Paris)
- Date
- 1919
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 36 × 28 3/4 in. (91.4 × 73 cm)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, 1956
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.