7426

REJECTED

The Honourable Lady Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, née Antoinette Eno Pinchot 1905

Bust-length, very slightly to the left and full face to the viewer smiling and wearing a large hat decorated with coloured feathers, a black chemise and a pale wrap just indicated round her shoulders

Oil on board, 92.1 x 71.2 cm (36 ¼ x 28 in.)

Sitters Book I, f. 38 Antoinette Johnstone [below that of her husband dated 8 April 1905]

Private Collection

De László made three portraits of the sitter in 1905, however, he only inscribed and dated one [7418]. The present picture and [7178] were both rejected, the latter remaining in his studio until he used the board for his study portrait of Baron Slatin Pasha [7178]. This portrait was given to the sitter. Lady Johnstone is wearing the studio hat that the artist used in numerous portraits before the First World War; see also the duchesse de Gramont [6550] and Prince Victoria of Battenberg [3481].

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [7418].

PROVENANCE:

By descent in the family

KF 2017