Image: Weisberg & Becker (1999).

• Media: “black and white chalk drawing.”
• Dimensions: 440 x 540 mm (0.24 m²).
• History: produced at the Académie Julian, c. 1879.
• Location: André Del Debbio collection, Paris.

“Isabel Dacre, a student from England, was associated with Julian’s atelier [private workshop] on two different occasions: in 1878-1879, when she completed this study; and later from 1884 to 1888, when she completed several works that gained her entry to the Salon” (Weisberg & Becker, 1999).

Source: Gabriel P. Weisberg and Jane R. Becker, eds (1999) Overcoming All Obstacles – The Women of the Académie Julian. New York: The Dahesh Museum. pp25-6.

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