Une religieuse à l'expression ironique
Henri Matisse
1945
Study for the illustration of the Portuguese Letters of Marianna Alcaforado, Paris, Tériade editor, 1946
Original etching in black on China paper applied on wove paper
28.7 x 22.5 cm
Numbered in pencil lower right on 25 and signed by the artist
Catalog raisonné : Duthuit 278
Une religieuse à l'expression ironique is, along with two other contemporary etchings of the same subject (D.276 and D.277), a study for the illustration of Lettres d'une religieuse portugaise, Marianna Alcaforado, published by Tériade in 1946.
