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Full-length portrait of a young woman dressed in all white with a black hat seated on a red uph…
La demoiselle d’honneur
Full-length portrait of a young woman dressed in all white with a black hat seated on a red uph…
Full-length portrait of a young woman dressed in all white with a black hat seated on a red upholstered bench with a bouquet in her hands a bushel of white flowers to her left.
La demoiselle d’honneur, Jean-François Raffaëlli, c. 1901, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

La demoiselle d’honneur

Artist (French, 1850 - 1924)
Datec. 1901
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 99 × 46 × 1 1/8 inches (251.5 × 116.8 × 2.9 cm)
Framed: 107 1/4 × 53 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (272.4 × 136.5 × 7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1910.2
On View
On view
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextAn artist of enormous range, sensitivity, and talent, Jean-François Raffaëlli is best known for images of the disenfranchised poor who inhabited the sprawling Parisian suburbs in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In the early 1890s Raffaëlli began producing numerous cityscapes featuring Parisian monuments and boulevards, and began to focus on middle-class subjects. La demoiselle d’honneur embodies the lighthearted elegance characteristic of his late works. The painting drew enthusiastic reviews when it was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1901; one critic later raved that it was “a new symphony in white, marvelous for its grace and charm.” This comparison to the famous tonalist painting Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl by James McNeill Whistler (1862; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) calls attention to Raffaëlli’s limited color scheme, which gleams in shades of white punctuated by dramatic areas of black and red.
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