- A Young Girl Drawing
- B.M.698
- 19th century
- French
Length: 24.7 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Length: Frame 34 cm
Width: Frame 26 cm
Chaplin would open his studio for classes that were reserved exclusively for women. He had a number of notable female students including Mary Cassatt and Eva Gonzalès. The female artist interested him as a subject and he produced a number or works depicting women sketching.
The artist rarely used dark colours, preferring to apply a standard palette of pastel shades of pink, blue and yellow. His fondness for these shades accentuates his almost transparent flesh tones. His contemporaries praised his handling of lavish fabrics paying tribute to his ‘life-like portrayal of satins, gauzes and taffetas’.