Woman Seated in an Armchair, c. 1900, Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, French, 1848 - 1934, 14 7/16 × 11 5/8 in. ( × cm) (sheet)23 × 17 5/8 × 3/4 in. ( × × cm) (outer frame), Black and white chalk with gray and brown wash on blue paper, France, 19th-20th century, This alert, fashionably dressed woman is the archetype of the Belle Époque Parisienne—a woman able to enjoy middle-class leisure in Paris when it seemed to be the capital of the world, a place of limitless possibility. Though she looks at her surroundings, she is equally aware of being seen

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