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Anne-Louis Girodet
(French, 1767 — 1824)
Woman in a Turban (1820)
Inventory Number: 8235
Oil on canvas.
14.5 x 17.5 inches (37 x 44.5 cm)
Girodet joined Jacques-Louis David's studio in 1784. He won the Prix de Rome in 1789. Girodet worked for the Imperial family as early as 1800, and in 1801, he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to paint Ossian Receiving the Shades of the French Heroes. Woman in a Turban, a carefully thought out composition and effective arrangement of colours, bears witness to the artist's great skill and professionalism. The sitter's face is framed by elegant twists of dark, glossy hair, falling charmingly from beneath the turban. The smooth line of the shoulders is repeated in the form of the turban itself, while the soft rosy cheeks and warm tones of the body, set off by the cold lilac colour of the shawl, echo the deep burgundy and gold of the turban.
Size can be commissioned smaller or larger.
Collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.