Giovanni Boldini - Madame Veil-Picard

Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931): Madame V.P. (Madame Veil-Picard), 1897 (Oil on canvas) - Presented at the Paris Salon in 1897. Madame Veil-Picard sits in a refined attitude and, at the same time, is informal with her arm holding her head as she rests on the back of a daybed… The friendship between Boldini and Veil-Picard has to be traced back to about a dozen years before, when the painter was a guest at the family villa in Besancon…