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Robert-Jacques Lefèvre
Portrait of a Woman Holding a Pencil and a Drawing Bookcirca 1808

Not on view
Oil painting full-length portrait of a seated young woman in a white empire-waist dress, holding a pen and books, on a dark velvet sofa
Artist or Maker
Robert-Jacques Lefèvre
France, Bayeux, 1755-1830
Title
Portrait of a Woman Holding a Pencil and a Drawing Book
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1808
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 50 × 44 in. (127 × 111.76 cm) Frame: 60 × 54 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (152.4 × 138.43 × 13.97 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Joan Palevsky
Accession Number
M.73.91
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.