Profil d’une jeune femme (Profile of a Young Woman)

Marie Laurencin

1917

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In an interior room with a view onto a landscape on the right, a woman sits on a chair and looks up to her husband who is holding a child on his arm. On the left, behind the chair, a maid carrying two doves. The mother is holding sheets with musical notations in her lap and a harpsichord stands against the wall on the right. A cat lies on a cushion in the left foreground. A dog jumps at the father's leg and looks towards the viewer.
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