MAKE A MEME View Large Image Paul Delaroche - Study for "Louise Vernet on Her Death Bed" - Walters 371379.jpg Paul Delaroche created a convincing and transcendent image of his dead wife in Louise Vernet on her Death Bed Louise lays blissfully in profile as both her ...
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Keywords: Paul Delaroche - Study for "Louise Vernet on Her Death Bed" - Walters 371379.jpg Paul Delaroche created a convincing and transcendent image of his dead wife in Louise Vernet on her Death Bed Louise lays blissfully in profile as both her mouth and right eye remain slightly open Her elevated head rests on two pillows as locks of her hair fall vertically to her shoulder and drape diagonally across her bosom Delaroche carefully defined each curl delineating individual hairs and shimmering highlights in Louise's palpable coiffure Her pale skin and her lifeless body indicate that she is deceased Rather than present the sordid details of death by fever Delaroche conveyed Christian triumph over death as a halo emerges from the dark background to encircle his wife's beautiful head This drawing is an angelic effigy ca 1845 graphite on slightly textured moderately thick cream wove paper with watermark cm 14 9 17 1 accession number 37 1379 13453 Goupil Paris William T Walters Baltimore May 18 1867 by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1867 Paul Delaroche in graphite lower left recto; Paul Delaroche in graphite right side verso; 6467 in graphite center verso; 27 in graphite upper right verso; partially trimmed Whatman watermark visible in raking light lower edge of drawing verso The Essence of Line place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Paul Delaroche Drawings in the Walters Art Museum Louise Vernet 1845 Deathbeds in art Deathbed portraits 1845 Paintings of female corpses Studies art The Essence of Line
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