The Lady with the Umbrella, with her less-than-idealized, highly studied physiognomy and uncluttered background, is a characteristic example of the type of portrait Henner likes to create.
Mme*** was called Augustine Durand, but this is not a commission. In 1876, Jules Clarétie referred to the painting that Henner had exhibited at the 1874 Salon.
Mme*** was called Augustine Durand, but this is not a commission
" [...] a bourgeois sphinx that brings to mind another Mona Lisa, less imperious and more modest."
