# Girl with a Cigarette [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ZORN, Anders]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary Zorn's works are generally carefully composed and executed, but he strove to produce in them a feeling of improvisation by the use of lively brush work and by creating the impression of having captured the subject at a given moment. Zorn's skill and expertise, in particular, in giving his portrait models an elegant and worldly aspect, secured him a wide range of patrons throughout the world. Zorn was also skilled as an etcher, and a number of his 288 etchings reproduce his oil paintings. He started etching in England in 1882 and developed a virtuoso technique, much inspired by his admiration for Rembrandt and quite impressionistic in character. His best-known prints are from his Parisian period. The etching version of the present portrait is in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. ## Related artworks - [Brook]() - [George Peabody Gardner]() - [Girl Playing Mandolin]() - [Girl with a Cigarette]() - [Midsummer's Day Dance]() - [Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon \(Virginia Purdy\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()