About this artwork

Studies of Italian women in costume were a popular subject for French artists and many country models came to Rome to be drawn and painted by them. However, Hebert preferred to depict the models in their native villages, spending 18 months living in Cervara, a village in the Simbruini Mountains outside Rome. This work is a study for the main figure in the painting Les Cervarolles, exhibited in 1859 and now in the Musee D’Orsay.

Updated August 2022

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Ernest Hebert

Ernest Hebert