Elegant Lady

Victor Gabriel Gilbert (French, 1847-1933) - Elegant Lady in an Artist’s Studio Interior, Wearing a Pink Dress (Oil on canvas) - - Gilbert had created a niche for himself with market scenes and for his work in the realistic depiction of the aspects of Parisian life, becoming popular not only with the public but also with the State which bought examples of his work from the Salons. As his style progressed, Gilbert began to embrace the higher-keyed palette of the Impressionists as well as their bourgeois subject matter…