3-035-512 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Jeanne Kéfer, 1885. Fernand Khnopff depicted the daughter of Gustave Kéfer, a composer friend, on a porch before a closed door, with her tiny thumb catching the edge of her bow as she reaches into her coat. With this small gesture, Khnopff captured the child's vulnerability and uncertainty in facing the outside world. To further evoke a child's perception of a world scaled for grown-ups, he framed Jeanne Kéfer's tiny body against the adult-sized door and tilted the floor ever so slightly.