1889
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Woman in Profile is a 1889 unspecified by Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a woman sitting outside, her face turned away, framed by tall trees. The brushstrokes are thick and short, almost like tiny dashes of color. They make the scene feel alive, even though the woman isn’t moving. It’s like the artist painted light itself, not just shapes. Look up impasto to see how other artists used thick paint to add energy to their work.
Henri Martin was an important French painter from Toulouse known for his contributions to the Neo-Impressionist movement. He painted this striking depiction of a woman seated outdoors before tall trees at a moment when he was just beginning to develop his mature style. The figure and background are painted with short, thickly applied strokes of pure color, filling the composition with energy and life. The trees are rendered with small hatching strokes and form a background of nearly abstract, decorative shapes.
A highly celebrated artist during his lifetime, Henri Martin received commissions to produce large paintings to decorate the interiors of important buildings in Paris, including the Palais Royal, the Hôtel de Ville (city hall), the Sorbonne, the Palais de Justice, and Élysees Palace.
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Henri-Jean Guillaume "Henri" Martin (French pronunciation: ; 5 August 1860 – 12 November 1943) was a French painter.
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