Pauline Laurens

• Young Girl Distracted from Her Lesson (Une distraction), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1873 Paris Salon under number 882. • Illustration — Une distraction • Poverella!, oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1874 Paris Salon under number 1102. • Illustration — Poverella! • Young Woman Playing Mandolin (1875), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1875 Paris Salon under number 1257. • Béatrix (1875), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1875 Paris Salon under number 1258. • Self-Portrait (1875), oil on canvas. • Betsy, the Flower Girl (1876), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1876 Paris Salon under number 1211. • Madame L. (1877), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1877 Paris Salon under number 1232. • Child with Red Bow (1877), oil on canvas. • Illustration — Child with Red Bow • Mademoiselle M. B. (1878), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1878 Paris Salon under number 1338. • Une page attachante (1879), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1879 Paris Salon under number 1795. • Rêverie (1879), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1879 Paris Salon under number 1796. • Müngyn (1880), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1880 Paris Salon under number 2156. • Mademoiselle Marguerite B. (1880), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1880 Paris Salon under number 2157. • Woman Reading a Letter (circa 1880), oil on canvas. • Madame Boullaire, Sister of the Artist (1881), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1881 Paris Salon under number 1347. • Étienne-Barthélemy Bagnoud, Bishop of Bethlehem (Portrait de Monseigneur Bagnoud, évêque de Bethléem), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1881 Paris Salon under number 1348. • Illustration — Étienne-Barthélemy Bagnoud, Bishop of Bethlehem • Mademoiselle Jeanne T. (1882), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1882 Paris Salon under number 1563. • Portrait of Navy Captain Gustave Besnard (1883), oil on canvas, exhibited at the 1884 Paris Salon under number 1426. • Jean Besnard, the Artist's Son (1890), oil on canvas. • Yvonne Besnard, the Artist's Daughter (1890), oil on canvas. • Jeanne Besnard, the Artist's Daughter (1891), oil on canvas. • Jacques Besnard, the Artist's Son (1891), oil on canvas. • Hélène Besnard, the Artist's Daughter (1891), oil on canvas. • Illustration — Hélène Besnard, the Artist's Daughter

• Illustration — Rosette and Dick Rosette and Dick In 1875, Eugène-Henri Le Brun-Dalbanne, curator of the Musée de Peinture de Troyes from 1871 to 1880, analyzed and praised Rosette and Dick: “To remind us of Watteau, to awaken memories of Greuze, to recall Chaplin, and yet remain oneself, is no small talent. Mademoiselle Pauline Laurens shows the best of her gifts in her charming painting entitled: Rosette and Dick. [...] Mademoiselle Pauline Laurens, who draws and paints with great skill, no longer counts her successes. Admitted to every Salon in which she has presented her works, she is destined to join the elite group of sensitive, intelligent, gifted women artists who prove that for them, art is no vain amusement.” Child Portrait at the 1878 Salon In Les femmes artistes au Salon de 1878 et à l'Exposition universelle, Anatole Alès (writing under the pseudonym Jean Alesson) commented on the Portrait of Mademoiselle M. B. shown at the 1878 Paris Salon: “Among the most recent child portraits, we would like to mention Pauline Laurens's portrait of a young girl in gray velvet with a pomegranate-red bow. The child, holding a hoop, remains motionless only out of obedience. Life has not left her. It is a beautiful painting, very distinguished” (page 14). Une page attachante and Rêverie • Illustration — Study for "Une page attachante" In his Dictionnaire Véron, Théodore Véron wrote about Une page attachante, exhibited at the 1879 Paris Salon: “This charming young châtelaine lowers her pretty head, wearing a straw hat adorned with poppies. She reads with an air of modesty. It is as graceful and poetic as a painting by Chaplin”. Regarding Rêverie, shown at the same Salon, he added: “La Rêverie is a very lovely figure, and she truly dreams. Oh, how beautiful she is! It is poetic and artistic, mademoiselle! In truth, you successfully compete with Madame Browne and Monsieur Chaplin! With a little effort, great rewards await you. You are a poet, mademoiselle!”.

• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes (Troyes Art Museum): Rosette and Dick (1875), oil on canvas, inventory number 875.6, Joconde database reference 000PE033148. • British Museum: Portrait of Mr. Chaplin, after a painting by Gustave Ricard, etching, inventory number 1880,0214.1966. • Philadelphia Museum of Art: Poverella!, after a painting by Pauline Laurens, etching, inventory number 1985-52-17906 • Petit Palais (musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris): Woman Playing Guitar, after a painting by Charles Chaplin, etching, inventory number PPG15897. • Petit Palais (musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris): Young Girl Writing, after a painting by Charles Chaplin, etching, inventory number PPG15908. • Petit Palais (musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris): Portrait of a Girl in a Medallion, after a painting by Charles Chaplin, etching, inventory number PPG1591(1). • Petit Palais (musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris): Portrait of Mademoiselle Alix de Bertier de Sauvigny (1857-1880), after a painting by Charles Chaplin, etching, inventory number PPG1591(2). • Petit Palais (musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris): Mother and Child, after a painting by Charles Chaplin, etching, inventory number PPG1592(1). • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Portrait of Mr. Chaplin, after a painting by Gustave Ricard, etching, inventory number 1963.30.22985. • Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains: Poverella!, after a painting by Pauline Laurens, etching.