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Mademoiselle

© the copyright holder. Photo credit: Glasgow Life Museums

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The sitter is most likely [Harriet] Sybil Meugens (1877–1942), an English artist who studied in Paris and exhibited there in 1905 and 1906. What appears to be another version of the same portrait dated 1903 and identified as Meugens, was sold by the Leicester Galleries.

Meugens and Kelly were in Paris at the same time and certainly knew each other. Aleister Crowley (Rose Kelly’s husband at the time) mentions a ‘Sybil Muggins’ in Crowley’s ‘Confessions’ and suggests that Kelly almost married her. Meugens is known to have been drawn by Kelly. A painting titled ‘Sybil’ in the RA 1957 exhibition of Kelly’s work, dated 1903 (number 53), may have been the Leicester Galleries version, as it was the same size.

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC)

Title

Mademoiselle

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 62.9 x W 50.2 cm

Accession number

2492

Acquisition method

bequeathed by John Keppie, 1945

Work type

Painting

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