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Young Girl in Profile
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About this work
This print depicts Hélène Chatenay, a seamstress who became Félix Vallotton’s partner during the 1890s. The two lived together in Paris’s Latin Quarter until Vallotton abruptly married Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques in 1899 and assumed her haut bourgeois lifestyle. During their years together, Chatenay was a frequent model for Vallotton and the profile view seen here was also realized as a drawing two years earlier.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineYoung Girl in Profile, 1891. Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925). Drypoint on ivory wove paper; platemark: 21.9 x 14.9 cm (8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.); sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Jane Glaubinger, 2024.10
