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A Woman Seated Beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), 1865
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil on canvas; 29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm)
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.128)

Called "Femme accoudée près d'un pot de fleurs" when the artist sold it in 1887, the painting is possibly a portrait of Mme Paul Valpinçon, wife of Degas' childhood friend. The bouquet is composed largely of asters. A pencil study for this portrait, also dated 1865, is in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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    A Woman Seated Beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), 1865
    Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
    Oil on canvas; 29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm)
    H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.128)