Composition
La Jeunesse, The Hunterian
Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl, Freer Gallery of Art
The pose, showing a young woman disrobing, and the placing of the figure in relation to the sofa, suggests a relationship to the oil painting Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl [YMSM 421], which was started at this time.
Technique
La Jeunesse, The Hunterian
There are at least two butterflies, one rubbed out on the seat right, and one on the back of the sofa, possibly yet another on the seat left. The charcoal gave a wide range of line, from the hard line of the robe to the softest of shadows.
Conservation History
The paper has some fibres and small pieces of wood-stalk.
Last updated: 5th June 2021 by Margaret
