Fernand Khnopff: Portrait of Jeanne Kefer

The Belgian artist, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) became a popular society portraitist in the 1880s, using elements that had served him well as an avant-garde Symbolist painter: visual realism and a mood of silence, isolation, and reverie. As in the provocative yet hauntingly beautiful *Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer* that is the focus of this book, he frequently posed his models leaning against a closed door, flattening the space and resulting in a meditativ...