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

Glossary

  • Drawing

    The depiction of shapes and forms on a flat surface chiefly by means of lines although colour and shading may also be included. Materials most commonly used are pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal, chalk and pastel, although other materials, including paint, can be used in combination.