Madame Charles Max is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, from 1896.

The critic François Thiébault-Sisson praised it: “In the scabrous art of accentuating, by the unexpectedness of movement, through the unexpected, often risky, pose, the grace and piquancy of his models, Boldini knows no rival.

If the brushstrokes that draw the face are descriptive and attentive to detail, in the depiction of the dress, Boldini resorts to his famous "saber cuts": the regal evening dress, in fact, allows the use of long and delicate brushstrokes, with which the figure of Madame Max seems to acquire an unprecedented lightness.

[3][4] Boldini carefully describes the anatomy of the character, as observed by art critics Giorgio Cricco and Francesco Di Teodoro, "the left leg is slightly raised, with the knee consequently advanced and the corresponding arm slenderly backwards, to balance the step, while the right hand skilfully gathers the long dress to further facilitate the gait.

The painting is executed in white and gray tones; the framing reduces as much as possible the relationship of the figure with its environment and the surrounding objects.