STUDY FOR RACHEL LE PETIT

STUDY FOR RACHEL LE PETIT 1907

Walter Richard Sickert (1860 – 1942)

Details

Dimension
25.4 X 37 CM
Media
CHARCOAL, HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE, ON PAPER
Accession number
P2643

Summary

The sitter for this drawing was Miss Siderman (d. 1963) and described by the artist as a ‘little Jewish girl of 13 or so with red-hair’. Some paintings of her have been known as The Frame-Maker’s Daughter which perhaps explains how she came to model for Sickert. The work is clearly inscribed at the bottom left le petit Jesus