Jeannette (I)

Henri Matisse · Issy-les-Moulineaux, January - March (?) 1910

This is Jeannette, the first of five. Matisse modelled the head of a young woman called Jeanne Vaderin from life, and this one still looks like her — the hair arranged, the features where you expect to find them. Keep it in mind as you pass the other four, because it is the last time she is recognisable.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 13 x 9 x 10" (33 x 22.8 x 25.5 cm) · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 506: Music (Sketch), Jeannette (II)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Jester, The Serenity of the Scholar, Le Pistolero (The Gunman), Figurines, Untitled (Nomsa with Africa), Untitled

More by Henri Matisse here: The Back (I), The Back (II), The Back (III), The Back (IV), Tiari, Dance (I)