Helvig Paus is a 1915 oil on canvas painting by Eilif Peterssen, one of Norway's foremost portrait painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[1] Its subject, Helvig Paus (1909–1976), until 1919 officially Helvig von Paus, was seven years old when she sat for the portrait, which was made when Eilif Peterssen visited Vienna in 1915.

[2] Helvig's maternal family converted from Judaism to Catholicism in the late 19th century.

Helvig Paus lived in Vienna until 1938, when she and her mother fled Anschluss and joined her brother Ole Paus, the WWII-era Norwegian resistance leader and later general, in Oslo.

[5] Her nephew, the Norwegian singer Ole Paus, lived with her as a child in Oslo in the 1950s.