Amedeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne

1919

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Overview

Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Size: 91.4 x 73 cm
Art period: Expressionism, Fauvism

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Inventory number: 56.184.2

Amadeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterneis a softly glowing and swiftly executed portrait of the artist’s wife in her pregnancy. The pigment analysis revealed a palette consisting of ochres, chrome yellowemerald greenPrussian bluevermilionzinc whitelead white, and the rather rare chrome orange.

Pigments

Pigment Analysis

The following pigment analysis is based on the investigation of scientists working on the Modigliani Technical Research Study (1).

 

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1 Brown hair: ochres, umber, and chrome yellow, and/or chrome orange
2 Red lips: vermilion

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3 Skin: lead white, zinc white, chrome yellow, and/or chrome orange with small amounts of yellow ochre
4 White chemise: lead white, and zinc white

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5 Brownish armchair: ochres, and umber

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Blue background: Prussian blue

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Black skirt: bone black

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8 Greenish background: emerald green
9 Yellowish background: chrome yellow, and yellow ochre

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References

(1) Silvia A. Centeno, Isabelle Duvernois, Anikó Bezur, Pedro H.O.V. Campos, Frauke V. Josenhans, Pablo Londero, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, Márcia Rizzutto, Cynthia Schwarz, The Modigliani Technical Research Study. Modigliani’s late portraits, The Burlington Magazine, No. 1382 – Vol 160, May 2018.

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Publications

(1) Silvia A. Centeno, Isabelle Duvernois, Anikó Bezur, Pedro H.O.V. Campos, Frauke V. Josenhans, Pablo Londero, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, Márcia Rizzutto, Cynthia Schwarz, The Modigliani Technical Research Study. Modigliani’s late portraits, The Burlington Magazine, No. 1382 – Vol 160, May 2018.