Portrait of Madame Wolfinger, the Artist's Wife, seated wearing a Hat

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Black chalk, pen and black ink, black wash heightened with white on grey-blue paper

Signed and dated 'Wolfinger-1878' and inscribed 'Madame Wolfinger' on the mount.

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon 1878.

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Literature:

E. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Dictionaire General des Artistes de 'Ecole Française, Paris 1885, p. 725.

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Little is known of the life and career of the portrait painter, Albert Wolfinger. He was born in the mid nineteenth century in Tarbes, France and was a student of Gerome. Wolfinger was recorded to have exhibited at the Salon of 1877 and 1878. The present drawing, a portrait of the artist's wife, was exhibited in the Salon of 1878.