Hector Leroux--1892--portrait de Susanne--1892, Suzanne Valadon, c. 1892

Hector leroux, susanne (portrait), c. 1892, oil on wood, inscription at the top middle: susanne, 0. 27 x 0. 22 meters, musée de la princerie, verdun, france. This study for a painting of a vestal reading (also at verdun) is named after a model. A tradition preserved in the artist's family relates that suzanne valadon, who posed for puvis de chavannes, renoir and degas, also served as a model for hector leroux in the early 1890s. Verdun, musée de la princerie. Date: c. 1892.