Artwork
A Fashionable Woman Standing in a Park
A Fashionable Woman Standing in a Park is a chalk drawing by the Romanticist artist Carle Vernet. It dates from 1798 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
About this work
Overview
A Fashionable Woman Standing in a Park is a red chalk drawing created by Carle Vernet in 1798. It features a woman in contemporary attire situated within a landscaped park.
Subject & Meaning
The subject is a fashionable woman of the time, highlighting Vernet's focus on genre scenes and portraits that capture everyday elegance.
Technique & Style
Executed in red chalk, the drawing reflects Vernet's adherence to a French artistic tradition that combines meticulous observation with refined representation.
History & Provenance
Created in 1798 by Carle Vernet, son of the marine painter Claude-Joseph Vernet, the drawing's provenance is not detailed here, focusing instead on its creation context.
Context
The work embodies late 18th-century French artistic values, blending the everyday with the aesthetically pleasing, set against the backdrop of a landscaped park.
Artist & collection
Artist
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, better known as Carle Vernet, was a French painter, the youngest child of painter Claude-Joseph Vernet and the father of painter Horace Vernet.
