Contact gallery for price		Marie-Aimée Lucas-Robiquet French, 19th century Girl in Pink Oil on canvas 20 x 17 inches (50.8 x 43.2 cm) Signed lower left: M. Lucas Robiquet Marie Anne Robiquet was a student of the well-known artist Félix-Joseph Barrias. She made her debut at the Paris Salon in 1879 with some of her portraits. She painted the Mort de la Vierge for the Notre-Dame church in d’Avranches, where she was born and raised, as well as a piece for the city’s museum called Au Puits. In our piece Girl in Pink, Marie Anne Robiquet has portrayed a girl, perhaps six years old. Positioned in the foreground of the painting, our subject is sitting on a green meadow filled with blossoming summer flowers. Immediately behind her we find a cornfield, its soft yellow color leaving the impression that it is a warm summer day. In the distance the open landscape is stretching out, broken off in the horizon by the mountains. This vast landscape appears to be far away from the girl, who is sitting in her own little world, sheltered by the sun-dappled corn, lending the scene an air of intimacy. Dressed in sparkling pink, holding on to a bouquet of flowers that she has been picking, she is gazing out at the viewer with her large blue eyes. The top layer of her dress is pulled up over her head, casting its shadow on her face, further enhancing the impression that she is in her own little world in the midst of nature. The careful attention Robiquet lavishes on the details of both the girl and the surrounding nature immediately strike the viewer, as does the fanciful brushwork that Robiquet is appreciated for. The colors of the child’s skin are delicate and light, and one is struck by the ways in which Robiquet skillfully draws out the soft curves of her face and the subtle shifts in skin tones.