마드무아젤 로즈

Before Eugene Delacroix became the great name of French Romantic painting, before the Massacre at Chios made him famous in 1824, he was a young artist in Paris studying a professional model. She's remembered only as Mademoiselle Rose, a woman who sat many times for Delacroix and for his English friend Richard Parkes Bonington. He skipped the usual poses borrowed from Greek and Roman statues. Instead he looked hard at her actual body, the way light caught the pearl-like sheen of her skin, one foot resting on a wooden block, her head turned to face him. It's a study of a real person in a Paris studio, made somewhere around 1820 to 1822.