Federico MADRAZO MADRAZO y OCHOA (1875-1934) - Lot 11

Federico MADRAZO MADRAZO y OCHOA (1875-1934) Portrait of Madame Hermine Oudinot épouse Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1905 (?) Oil on canvas, signed, dated and dedicated upper right and annotated on the back on the stretcher "Portrait de Mme Hermine Lecomte du Nouy 1905 (?) ma mère. The author of Amitié Amoureuse". (Craquelures). 61 x 61 cm In this lively portrait, Federico Madrazo y Ochoa captures Hermine Oudinot in full speech, with the liveliness of spirit characteristic of literate women of the Belle Époque. Daughter of master glassmaker Eugène Oudinot and wife of architect André Lecomte du Nouÿ, she published Amitié amoureuse in 1896, a best-selling novel inspired by her relationship with Guy de Maupassant, with whom she was close during the last decade of his life.