Artist: Chaim Soutine
Date: 1933
Museum: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
In Jeune Servante (Waiting Maid) Soutine focuses on a single subject against an unadorned background, an anonymous, working-class figure in uniform painted with typically expressive and tactile brushwork. The painting also has a second title, La Soubrette (referring to a coquettish character derived from operetta), which - possibly to encourage sales - was given when the work was offered for sale in London in 1938 in a show entitled The Tragic Painters at Alex, Reid & Lefevre Ltd., when it was also dated to c.1925, although the original title seems closer to the artist
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