Portrait of Gabrielle Enthoven

ca.1911

S.69-2022 Oil painting on canvas of Gabrielle Enthoven, standing, wearing a black coat with a white carnation on the left lapel, a black stock at her throat, one white cuff showing below her left coat sleeve, and one white glove worn on her right hand that rests upon an upright piano or harmonium to her right. Her ungloved left hand is partly in her pocket, the glove dangling from it. A framed drawing or painting of a French can-can dancer hangs on the wall behind her above the dado rail. S.69:2-2022 19th-century Rococo-style frame with applied decoration of gilded pressed composition ('compo') of acanthus leaf, acanthus flower, and shell motifs. The frame has a gilded slip frame with a bevelled sight edge. Affixed to th back of the frame, top centre, is the printed label of F. Casson: 'Gilder, Picture Frame Maker, Print & Picture Dealer, Restorer & Re-Gilder, 20, Bond Street, Hull, Dealer in Artistic Materials of Every Description'. A width of canvas wrapped over the stretcher verso. lower left, bears the remnants of a white paper label torn in two, printed 'Royal Aca..... Arts' and 'MD...XCI', and 'Mrs Enthoven.... Ethel Wright', the title and name of the artist as they appeared in the catalogue for the 1911 Royal Academy Exhibition in Burlington House. A torn white label fixed to the central wooden stretcher is inscribed with the name and address: 'Wright / 9 Compagne Premiere / Bould. Montparnasse / Paris / Via Folkestone & Boulogne'.