Portrait of a Young Woman in Profile from the Belle Époque, 1900, Art Nouveau, by Guyon.

Portrait of a woman from the Belle Époque, likely from Parisian high society of the time.
Dated 1903, during the height of the Art Nouveau period, this painting boasts superb lighting and a rather unique color palette, giving the impression of natural light.

Signed Guyon, it may be the work of Maximilienne Guyon (1868-1903)*, as the pose and style are indeed reminiscent of the works of this painter, a favorite of Princess Mathilde.

The frame is modern but made of quality gilded wood; the gilding is less flashy in reality than it appears in the photographs. The canvas has undergone a somewhat clumsy restoration in the hair and bears the mark of the canvas and paint merchant F. Perrod, located at 33bis Boulevard de Clichy in Paris.
The canvas alone measures 38cm x 46cm.

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*Maximilienne Guyon, also known as Maximilienne Goepp (1868-1903), was a French artist, portrait painter, watercolorist, engraver, illustrator, and teacher of the Belle Époque.

A student at the Académie Julian, Maximilienne Guyon studied under the painters Gustave Boulanger, Jules Lefebvre, and Tony Robert-Fleury.
At the 1889 Universal Exposition, she received a silver medal and was awarded a travel grant.
She was part of the delegation of French women artists presented at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, housed in the Woman's Building.

Several of her drawings were engraved to illustrate Le Petit Piano, a music reading journal and supplement to La Mode illustrée (1894).

From 1895 to 1898, she published works that were engraved for Le Monde illustré. She also contributed to Le Soleil du dimanche and to the Christmas 1894 and 1897 issues of L'Illustration. "Maris Stella" was reproduced in the July 1898 issue of L'Estampe moderne (Dallas Museum of Art).

She also produced posters and book illustrations.

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