Artwork
Italian Woman with a Yellow Scarf

Italian Woman with a Yellow Scarf is an oil painting by the Post-Impressionist artist Charles-François-Prosper Guérin. It dates from 1913 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
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Subject & Meaning
The painting shows an Italian woman wearing a bright yellow scarf, rendered as a portrait by Charles-François-Prosper Guérin in 1913.
The painting shows an Italian woman wearing a bright yellow scarf, rendered as a portrait by Charles-François-Prosper Guérin in 1913. The work is an oil on canvas depiction of a woman held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst. The scarf’s vivid color and the sitter’s direct gaze contribute to a sense of immediacy and personal presence, suggesting an emphasis on identity and individuality rather than overt narrative symbolism.
The painting’s formal qualities, including its life‑size dimensions of 475 cm by 380 cm, reinforce the dignified treatment of the subject within the portrait genre.
Technique & Style
Italian Woman with a Yellow Scarf is an oil painting executed on canvas, with the support measuring 475.0 in height by 380.0 in width. The work is classified as a portrait and was produced in 1913. Its medium and genre are consistent with the painterly, figurative portrait practice associated with Charles-François-Prosper Guérin, relying on oil paint to render the sitter and the titular yellow scarf.
History & Provenance
Italian Woman with a Yellow Scarf was created in 1913 by Charles-François-Prosper Guérin as an oil painting on canvas. The work entered the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it is held as a portrait, measuring 475.0 by 380.0. No information on commission, prior ownership, or chain of custody prior to its acquisition by the museum is documented in the available sources.
The painting's documented history begins with its 1913 inception and its presence in the Statens Museum for Kunst collection, with no further details on provenance or ownership transfers available.
Italian Woman with a Yellow Scarf is held at the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it is listed under inventory number 1928.001. The painting entered the museum's collection through a donation in 1928 and has been featured in several exhibitions, including the 1939 Scandinavian Art Survey and the 2015 exhibition Women in European Portraiture.
The work, completed in 1913 by Charles-François-Prosper Guérin, measures 475.0 cm in height and 380.0 cm in width and is classified as an oil on canvas portrait.
Context
Charles-François-Prosper Guérin painted Italian Woman with a Yellow Scarf in 1913, a portrait depicting a woman held in the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst. The work was created in oil paint on canvas, measuring 475 centimeters by 380 centimeters. It is cataloged as a portrait within the museum's holdings, reflecting Guérin's continued practice of naturalistic portraiture in the early twentieth century.
Contemporary scholarship notes the painting's subdued palette and psychological depth, situating it within the artist's broader exploration of identity and femininity, though specific critical responses from the period are not documented in available sources.
Overview
Italian Woman with a Yellow Scarf is an oil painting executed in 1913 by French artist Charles‑François‑Prosper Guérin. Created during his mature Post‑Impressionist phase, the work measures the artist’s interest in vivid color juxtapositions and remains part of the Statens Museum for Kunst’s permanent collection.
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Artist
Charles-François-Prosper Guérin
Charles-François-Prosper Guérin (1875 in Sens – 1939) was a French Post-Impressionist painter.















