Louise ABBEMA (Etampes 1853 - Paris 1927) Portrait of a woman with a milliner's crown of flowers Original canvas Signed upper left "Louise Abbema 46.5 x 38 cm Our painting is similar to the decorative panel: Allegory of Winter (Canvas, 130 x 100 cm) painted by Louise Abbema around 1900-1905 and now in the Musée d'Orsay. We would like to thank Justine De Young for confirming our attribution and for the information contained in this note. She will include our painting in her catalogue raisonné currently in preparation. She dates the painting to around 1898 when Louise Abbema produced a series of Portraits of Women Wearing a Crown of Flowers (Justine De Young knows of five other paintings in the series), three of which were exhibited at the Galerie Georges Petit in 1899.