Portrait of the Artist's Wife
1897?
- Medium
- oil on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 56.8 × 47.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-131393
Jessie Macauley Olssen first met Henry Ossawa Tanner in Barbizon, France. They married in Paris in 1899 and had one child together. In this portrait, Mrs. Tanner is shown in a highly studied pose meant to look informal and casual. Tanner painted Jessie’s face with greater detail than her dress, which he painted in a loose, unfinished manner.
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jack Hafif
Registry history
- 1897? — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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