Frédérique Follows Her Husband, Illustration for Frédérique

Everett Shinn

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

This drawing is one of sixteen by the artist commissioned to illustrate Charles Paul de Kock’s 1907 novel Frédérique, a tale of love and adultery in Parisian society. In this image, Frédérique, disguised in men’s clothing, pursues her husband on his evening outing to confirm his extramarital escapades. Everett Shinn juxtaposed a precise rendering of the protagonist in the foreground with loose, rapid strokes of crayon in the architecture and pavement to heighten the mystery and gloominess of this nighttime scene.

Caption

Everett Shinn American, 1876–1953. Frédérique Follows Her Husband, Illustration for Frédérique, 1906. Black crayon (probably Conté) on beige, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper., Sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 in. (39.7 x 53.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 42.101. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 42.101_PS4.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Frédérique Follows Her Husband, Illustration for Frédérique

Date

1906

Medium

Black crayon (probably Conté) on beige, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper.

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

Sheet: 15 5/8 x 21 in. (39.7 x 53.3 cm)

Signatures

Signed in crayon, lower left: "E SHINN / 1906"

Credit Line

Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Accession Number

42.101

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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