1856
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of a Young Woman is a 1856 by Octave Tassaert, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting is a portrait of a young woman with long, wavy hair. Her face is turned slightly to the right, and her eyes are cast downward. She wears a simple, light-colored top. The artist's use of chiaroscuro creates a sense of depth and volume in the subject's face and hair. The overall effect is one of quiet contemplation. To learn more about the Romanticism movement, which influenced this painting, look up Romanticism.
Nicolas François Octave Tassaert (Paris, 26 July 1800 – Paris, 24 April 1874) was a French painter of portraits and genre, religious, historical and allegorical paintings, as well as a lithographer and engraver.
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