Madame Helleu Cradling Paulette in Her Arms
1904 · black, red, and white chalk on buff paper
sheet: 48.9 x 42.7 cm (19 1/4 x 16 13/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Paul César Helleu
1859
PaintingImpressionismPost-Impressionism
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37
Works in Collection
61
Assets Indexed
3
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80%
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Paul César Helleu was a French painter and printmaker known for elegant portraits and landscape paintings executed in a loose, impressionistic manner. Working primarily in oils and pastels during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he captured society figures and coastal scenes with a fluid, spontaneous technique.
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Beaux-Arts de Paris
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