Französischer Maler Lot n° 1539

(Active 1st quarter 19th century) Portrait of a young woman with a red turban Finely painted Empire portrait of a young, pensive woman in half-profile, dressed in a delicate chiffon robe and an oriental cloth draped around her left shoulder. After painters and draughtsmen had sometimes used turbans as a foreign, oriental element in portraits during the Renaissance and Baroque, the turban also became a highly popular accessory in women's fashion around 1800, and thus also in portraits by Anne Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson (1767 - 1824) and François Gérard (1770 - 1837), among others. A forerunner was Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755 - 1842), who liked to wear turbans since the 1780s and depicted herself and later also the ladies of the society with this headgear. Oil on canvas; 57 cm x 48 cm. French painter active first quarter 19th C. Oil on canvas.