六合彩预测

Paris, 1870. A young woman is deep in thought. Her eyes, which are in shadow, gaze into the middle-distance and her lips are relaxed. With her left hand, she plays with a lock of hair 鈥� a well-practised habit whilst she poses.

The kindly artist, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, likes to dress her in rural Italian costume, which reminds him of painting trips he took to Italy during his youth. Today she wears a black velvet bodice over a simple white blouse. Her hair is tied back under a salmon pink headscarf and she has bright yellow sleeves on her arms, held in place with sky blue bows. In this unfamiliar costume, she feels self-conscious. Holding a stiff pose with her shoulders back and her right arm bent, holding a mirror, she waits for the artist to call time.

Known as 鈥楾he Italian Woman or Woman with Yellow Sleeve鈥�, (c.1870), this painting is a relative newcomer to the 六合彩预测鈥檚 collection. It was previously owned by the figurative painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011), who hung it above a fireplace in an upstairs room of his home in Kensington.

Freud once said, 鈥淚 look at pictures like someone looking for help.鈥� We might wonder what assistance he received from this painting. Perhaps he was drawn to the vigorous brushwork, reminiscent of the robust way that Freud handled oil colour in his own figure paintings. Look at the bright blue ribbon tied around the model鈥檚 upper arm, painted with just a few daubs of the brush, and her loose-fitting cotton blouse, conveyed through a thick swathe of white paint.

Or maybe it was the blank expression of Corot鈥檚 model, redolent of the neutral countenances that sitters adopted in many of Freud鈥檚 pictures, fatigued after countless hours of posing. An intensely private man, Freud would have been unlikely to tell us. However, this picture was clearly important to him, displayed so prominently in his home.

When Freud died in 2011, Corot鈥檚 鈥業talian Woman鈥� was gifted to the nation through the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Freud thought of Corot鈥檚 painting as a 鈥榞ift of thanks鈥� to Britain, which had given his family sanctuary when they fled Germany in 1933, escaping the rise of Nazism. It is now聽on view in Room 45, for everyone to enjoy.

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