Portrait of a woman dressed in the antique style, in a Pompeian interior
Oil on panel (slightly domed panel)
24.5 x 17 cm
Louis Hector Leroux was a pupil of François- Edouard Picot. Winner of a second Rome Prize in 1857, he left for Rome. Following this stay, he became passionate about and specialized in the representation of ancient subjects. Many portraits or interior scenes of his work are set in the Roman world, ancient characters and divinities. This portrait represents a young woman in profile dressed in a toga and Roman jewelry. She is held in an interior decorated with Pompeian frescoes with, for furniture, a curule chair on the right on which is placed a fabric.