Portrait Of A Marquise During The Second Empire ​artist: Aimé-henri-edmond Sewrin (1809–1896)

Artist: Aimé-Henri-Edmond SEWRIN-BASSOMPIERRE (Paris, 1809–1896)

Technique: Pastel on paper

Format: Oval

Signature: Signed in the right margin

A superb oval pastel portrait depicting an elegant young woman during the Second Empire. The subject is shown in a three-quarter bust view, with her hair styled in braids that fall in curls over her shoulders, and wearing a delicate pair of dangling earrings. She wears a sumptuous blue silk dress fastened with buttons, adorned with a wide neckline of refined white lace and a matching shawl or piece of fabric richly embroidered.

The work demonstrates the artist’s consummate mastery in rendering textures (silks, lace) and the softness of the facial expression.

Presented in its original wooden frame with gilded composition, richly molded with ova motifs, enhanced by its oval gilded mat and set behind period glass.

Aimé-Henri-Edmond Sewrin-Bassompierre (1809–1896) was a renowned 19th-century French genre painter, portraitist, and pastel artist. A student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he exhibited regularly at the Official Salon from 1832 to 1875. Known for the finesse of his portraits of high society and his use of light in pastels, his works are included in several private collections and institutions.

Dimensions without frame: 65 cm / 46 cm. With frame: 83 cm / 70 cm.

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