Portrait of Gabrielle Cot
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[Oil on canvas, 17 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches (45.5 x 38 cm), Collection of Fred and
Sherry Ross, USA]
Note by ARC Chairman, Fred Ross:
This magnificent portrait has been judged by a number of top experts and
master artists, to be one of the greatest portrait heads ever painted... by
any artist ... ever.
Gabriel Cot was the daughter of Bouguereau’s most famous student, Pierre
August Cot.
Bouguereau was planning to use her for one of his major paintings, and so
he started this as a study for that painting, but, as he worked, he was so
captivated by Gabriel’s beauty, including her intense inner beauty, that he
finished it as one of his only un-commissioned portraits.
I know of no other work that better exemplifies how this master captured
the subtle nuances of personality and mood.
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