Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portrait of the Artist's Wife
Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937 · 1897?
Jessie Macauley Olssen first met Henry Ossawa Tanner in Barbizon, France. They married in Paris in 1899 and had one child together. In this portrait, Mrs. Tanner is shown in a highly studied pose meant to look informal and casual. Tanner painted Jessie’s face with greater detail than her dress, which he painted in a loose, unfinished manner.
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