Portrait of an Infant
1884
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1884
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a baby in white lace. The child stares straight ahead, cheeks flushed. Light falls softly on the face. The lace is painted in tiny, careful dots. That kind of detail feels unusual for a portrait of a child. It makes the baby look more like a doll. This technique is called pointillism. Look up Georges Seurat—he used the same dots to build whole scenes.
