La Blouse Roumaine

La Blouse Roumaine is an oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Matisse from 1940.

Measuring 92 × 73 cm, the painting is currently held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.

It depicts a woman in a blue skirt and a white embroidered blouse.

[1] Although the Centre Pompidou cites Lydia Delectorskaya as the original model,[1] other candidates for the inspiration for the painting include Elvira Popescu, Elena Văcărescu, Anna de Noailles and Marthe Bibesco.

[3] A pen and ink sketch with the same title, with a similar blouse but a different composition, dated in 1937, is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.