Title

The Important Response, 19th century. Creator: Florent Willems.

Caption

The Important Response, 19th century. A woman in early 17th-century attire is seated at a table pondering a letter she is writing. In the background is a high Japanese screen. The artist has lavished great care in the rendering of the contrasting surfaces of his subject's satin dress and of the rug covering the table. In its intimacy and in its oriental note, this work approximates the painting of Alfred Stevens.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B21_343

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,1Mb (2,3Mb) / 13,7in x 16,5in / 4095 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe portrait women woman people interior domestic fashion sitting arts painting country art concentration tables continent clothes letter museum Belgium European color screen dress table Belgian Baroque concentrating location century thinking material textiles inside fabric household cloth clothing furniture textile table cloth concept correspondence tablecloth seated APPAREL full length one person full-length domestic life beige oil Painting Colour 19th century Indoors 1860s 1870s folding screen nineteenth century oil young women young woman oil on panel Baroque Era ladieswear Walters Art Museum Heritage Art oil on panel women's wear womenswear 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing Florent Willems Willems Florent Florent Willems van Edeghem