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Portrait of the Artist's Wife

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Mrs. Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Jessie Macauley Olssen first met Henry Ossawa Tanner in Barbizon, France. They married in Paris in 1899 and had one child together. In this portrait, Mrs. Tanner is shown in a highly studied pose meant to look informal and casual. Tanner painted Jessie’s face with greater detail than her dress, which he painted in a loose, unfinished manner.
Type:
Image
Format:
Oil On Fiberboard
Rights:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jack Hafif
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Bust
  2. Portrait Female
  3. Portraits
  4. Tanner, Henry Ossawa
  5. Tanner, Henry Ossawa, Mrs
  6. Women

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