George Du Maurier

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Signed lower left-hand corner: ‘Hy.F.’
On reverse inscr. in red ink: ‘Punch Chap V’ and ‘110’.

This portraitback to top

The image of Du Maurier fashioning a slender female foot may be a reference to Little Billee’s fetishization of Trilby’s ‘little left foot’ in Du Maurier’s hugely popular novel Trilby (1894). This suggests a date in the 1890s for the drawing.

On the back of the drawing are a face of the same sitter almost in profile to the left, crossed through, and the inscription ‘Punch Chap V’ and ‘110’ in red ink.[1]

See NPG collections 3337–3535, 3554–3620

Carol Blackett-Ord

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1) After remounting no longer viewable; information from NPG RP 3554–3620.

Physical descriptionback to top

Three-quarter-length, standing to the left, wearing an apron; on the left, on a ledge or table, a naked foot.

Conservationback to top

Conserved, 1980.

Provenanceback to top

The artist; his sons, from whom purchased (through Theodore Cluse), April 1947

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