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    Balthus's 1938 painting Thérèse Dreaming depicts his young model Thérèse Blanchard lost in thought. Blanchard was 12-13 years old when painted. She modeled for Balthus in at least nine other works, alone or with her cat or brother. Balthus, like other modern artists, saw children as representing raw spirit before societal influence. The painting draws on the early 20th century avant-garde tradition of viewing adolescent sexuality as a site of vulnerability and lack of inhibition.

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    Balthus's 1938 painting Thérèse Dreaming depicts his young model Thérèse Blanchard lost in thought. Blanchard was 12-13 years old when painted. She modeled for Balthus in at least nine other works, alone or with her cat or brother. Balthus, like other modern artists, saw children as representing raw spirit before societal influence. The painting draws on the early 20th century avant-garde tradition of viewing adolescent sexuality as a site of vulnerability and lack of inhibition.

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    Thérèse Dreaming
    1938
    Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) French

    Balthus’s model, Thérèse Blanchard, appears—as the title of this work suggests—unaware of her surroundings and lost in thought. Blanchard was about twelve or thirteen when the artist painted this canvas. She would figure
    in at least nine other compositions, either alone or with her cat or her brother. Balthus, like countless modern artists, believed the subject of the child to be a source of raw spirit, not yet molded by societal expectations. Many
    early twentieth‑century avant‑garde artists, from Paul Gauguin to Edvard Munch to Pablo Picasso, also viewed adolescent sexuality as a potent site of psychological vulnerability as well as lack of inhibition, and they projected
    these subjective interpretations into their work. While it may be unsettling to our eyes today, Thérèse Dreaming draws on this history.

    On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 907

    Object Details

    Artist: Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) (French, Paris 1908–2001 Rossinière)


    Date: 1938
    Medium: Oil on canvas
    Dimensions: 59 x 51 in. (149.9 x 129.5 cm)
    Classification: Paintings
    Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
    Accession Number: 1999.363.2
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