Portrait of Catherine FONTENEY in the role of Ida RUBINSTEIN
Fine Arts
Inventory number
2022.6.23.20.FA.PA.1914.FRAuthor:
Joseph Porphyre PINCHON (French, Amiens 1871 - 1953 Paris)Description
Painting portrait representing a woman wearing an oriental-style costume made of a long silk dress with coloured patterns at the end, surrounded by a wide scarf and decorated with geometrical diamond-shaped patterns. She is adorned with several jewels such as bracelets, rings and earrings. Her headdress is heavily ornamented with stones and a feather. On the right background, there is a small pond with water lilies in it.She is moving in a dancing posture. It represents Catherine FONTENEY a French spoofing actress, impersonating Ida RUBINSTEIN, a famous Russian ballet dancer. The scene takes place in "En Douce !..." by Paul ARDOT and Jean BASTIA, a review played for the first time September 18, 1913 at the Comédie des Champs Elysées theatre. It tackles the story of an evening in a bourgeois home during the Second French Empire, featuring a wedding scene and caricaturing many public personnalities of different times.
The painter has been inspired by a Auguste BERT's photograph of Catherine FONTENEY in this role, taken in 1913.
Materials
Oil in canvasWood frame
Origin
1914 FranceDimensions
Width : 2 cmLength : 60 cm
Height : 92 cm
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