oil on panel , 51.5 x 46 cm ( 20 1/4 x 18 in)
signed lower left

Provenance: The Artist’s Studio Estate; Atelier number 348

Wilfrid’s younger sister, Rachel, was often painted by the artist, and in a variety of guises. She was his model for a painting called Le Chant des Sirens in the mid-1890s, as well as for another entitled Le Miroir des Eaux.[1] In the latter, she appears as a sea nymph seated on a seaweed covered rock, swathed in her long golden hair. ...