Portrait of a Girl, 1900
Pastel on canvas
77 x 65 cm in its original Degas frame
Signed and dated "Jeanne Forain, 14 mai 1900" lower right
Rare pastel by Jeanne Forain, artist and wife of the painter Jean-Louis Forain. Present in many public collections. A superb monographic exhibition was dedicated to him at the Alfred-Canel Museum in Pont-Audemer in 2016, as part of the Normandy Impressionist Festival 2016.