Jeanne Hébuterne was born in Paris on April 6, 1898. She was an art -student when in 1917, she met3„4Modigliani. This portrait of her would seem to date from the late summer of autumn of 1918, when she was carrying her first child by3„4Modigliani. C. -A. Cingria describes her as timid, patient , and soft-spoken, with fine grey eyes.