A Young Artist

Paul Constant Soyer, 1823 - 1903



A Young Artist

Paul Constant Soyer 1823 - 1903

Summary

A little girl sits on a low stool in front of an easel, concentrating hard on copying the portrait in front of her. She is neatly turned out in a blue dress and green pinafore, and a green ribbon holds back her glossy hair. A box of pastels and a glass of water are at her feet. Plaster casts of a hand and an arm hang from the wall beside her, implying that this may be the corner of an artist's studio. Paul Soyer, a pupil of Léon Cogniet, specialised in domestic genre scenes and portraits of children, both of which were fashionable genres in mid-19th century France. This portrait of youthful enthusiasm avoids being saccharine.


Object Name

A Young Artist

Creators Name

Paul Constant Soyer

Dimensions

unframed: 22.7cm x 18cm
framed: 34.6cm x 30cm

accession number

1918.421

Place of creation

France

Support

canvas

Medium

oil paint

Credit

Transferred from the Horsfall Museum Collection, 1918

Legal

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