1919, Amadeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hebuterne -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Modigliani painted this portrait of his companion, Jeanne Hébuterne, with the delicacy he perfected while working in the South of France between April 1918 and May 1919, a period during which the artist experienced a decline in health and the birth of his daughter. The artist presents Hébuterne obliquely, the curve of her seat accentuating her growing, pregnant silhouette. Modigliani's elongation of her limbs, especially set against the fullness of her white chemise, suggest his admiration of late sixteenth-century Mannerist paintings of the Madonna and Child.
1919, Amadeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hebuterne -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Modigliani painted this portrait of his companion, Jeanne Hébuterne, with the delicacy he perfected while working in the South of France between April 1918 and May 1919, a period during which the artist experienced a decline in health and the birth of his daughter. The artist presents Hébuterne obliquely, the curve of her seat accentuating her growing, pregnant silhouette. Modigliani's elongation of her limbs, especially set against the fullness of her white chemise, suggest his admiration of late sixteenth-century Mannerist paintings of the Madonna and Child.