Petite aurore

Henri Matisse

1923

  • Titles Petite aurore (Proper)@Femme couchee sur fond Louis XIV (Former title)
  • Artist Henri Matisse, French, 1869 - 1954
  • Medium lithograph
  • Dimensions sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) image: 5 3/8 × 8 in. (13.7 × 20.3 cm) mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Dorothy Steiner, 2004.107
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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Cornelis van der Geest was a merchant and art collector. He is seen here in portrait from the waist up. He wears a ruff and a cloak hanging over his right arm. He looks to the proper right and crosses his arms at his stomach. This image is from the Gillis Hendricx edition of the Iconography (Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum, Pictorum Chalcographorum Statuorum nec non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis Numero Centum), 1632-44.