Study for “Young Girls Praying" La prière des petites filles
Date
1861
Creator
Location
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
This oil on canvas is a study for Ribot’s Salon painting Young Girls Praying (La prière des petites filles), which is signed and dated 1862. […] Ribot completed a composition of two young girls wearing religious robes and kneeling in a pose of supplication...The Snite Museum study has one child looking in the direction of the viewer, as she establishes eye contact with the imagined audience; the other figure, situated slightly behind her, looks off into the distance. One girl holds a cross, the other a rosary—attributes that suggest, along with their clothes, that they are novices in training to become nuns. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
![This oil on canvas is a study for Ribot’s Salon painting Young Girls Praying (La prière des petites filles), which is signed and dated 1862. […] Ribot completed a composition of two young girls wearing religious robes and kneeling in a pose of supplication...The Snite Museum study has one child looking in the direction of the viewer, as she establishes eye contact with the imagined audience; the other figure, situated slightly behind her, looks off into the distance. One girl holds a cross, the other a rosary—attributes that suggest, along with their clothes, that they are novices in training to become nuns.
from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiiif-image.library.nd.edu%2Fiiif%2F2%2F2009.045.087%2F2009_045_087-v0001%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
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