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| Keywords: Antoine-Émile Plassan - Evening Prayer - Walters 3747.jpg A young woman wearing a white blouse with her shoulders bared and a long black skirt kneels in prayer beside her bed The furnishings of this contemporary bourgeois interior include a colorful oriental rug a turned mahogany candlestand carrying a brass double candleholder and an upholstered Louis XV-style armchair Partially concealed by the pink silk bed curtains is a framed crucifix Single-figured boudoir scenes such as this work were the mainstay of Plassan's oeuvre A very similar composition with the same figure and candlestand entitled La Prière was sold at Sotheby's in London July 21 1976 no 45 dated 1862 between 1863 1864 oil on panel three-ply laminated wood cm 27 22 accession number 37 47 40888 William T Walters Baltimore December 5 1863 by commission payment made on April 9 1864 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Commissioned by William T Walters 1863 Signature Lower right in block letters PLASSAN; Transcription Impressed on reverse of panel TACHET / BREVETTE / A PARIS place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Praying women in art Beds in art 1860s Candlestands furniture Tripod tables Candlestands Footstools in art 1860s paintings Antoine Émile Plassan French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Kneeling in prayer in art | ||||
