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| Countess Louise de Baillet, 1902. |
Better remembered as a sculptor - if, frankly, remembered at all - the Belgian Lalaing also produced calm, coolly elegant, and very smoothly finished portraits; of the examples I've been able to find, the vast majority are of aristocratic - or at least very genteel - ladies. Most if not all of those featured here appear to have been done in pastel.
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| Mrs. William Barrett Ridgely, née Kate Deering, 1896. |
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| Mlle. Hélène de Burlet, 1894. (The young lady later became a nun and endured imprisonment during both world wars.) |
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| "Lady Saphire", circa 1910s. |
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| Countess Maximilien de Lalaing, née Julia Vibart, mother of the artist, 1896. |
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| Countess Charles de Lalaing, née Baroness Christine du Tour van Bellinchave, sister-in-law of the artist, 1906. |
Flawless.
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