Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) 
Jacqueline with Crossed Hands (Portrait de Jacqueline Roque aux mains croisees)
Oil on canvas, 3 January 1954
Musée Picasso, Paris, France

 

Portraits of Jacqueline Roque

1. "Jacqueline with Crossed Hands", 1954
2. "Jacqueline with Flowers", 1954
3. "Jacqueline Rocque", 1954
4. "Jacqueline Rocque", 1954
5. "Jacqueline Rocque", 1954
6. "Jacqueline", 1954
7. "Jacqueline assise", 1954
8. "Jacqueline accroupie 1", 1954
9. "Jacqueline accroupie 2", 1954
10. "Jacqueline Rocque", 1955
11. "Jacqueline Rocque", 1955
12. "Jacqueline assise en costume turc", 1955
13. "Jacqueline nue au bonnet turc", 1955
14. "Portrait de Jacqueline", 1955
15. "Jacqueline en costume turc", 1955
16. "Jacqueline in Studio", 1956
17 "Femme dans l`atelier (Jacqueline) III", 1956
18. "Portrait de Jacqueline", 1956
19. "Jacqueline in Studio", 1957
20. "Jacqueline Rocque", 1957
21. "Jacqueline Rocque", 1957
22. "Portrait de Jacqueline", 1957
23. "Jacqueline", 1957
24. "Jacqueline devant un tableau", 1957
25. "Jacqueline Rocque", 1958
26. "Jacqueline de profil droit III", 1958
27. "Jacqueline de profil droit II", 1958
28. "Jacqueline", 1958
29. "Jacqueline de Vauvenargues", 1959
30. "Jacqueline et le chien afghan", 1959
31. "Portrait de Jacqueline de profil I", 1959
32. "Portrait de Jacqueline de profil II", 1959
33. "Portrait de Jacqueline de profil III", 1959
34. "Portrait de Jacqueline de profil IV", 1959
35. "Jacqueline", 1960
36. "Femme assise (Jacqueline) I", 1960
37. "Femme au chapeau jaune (Jacqueline)", 1961
38. "Portrait de Jacqueline", 1961
39. "Jacqueline en mariee, de face I(XIV)", 1961
40."Femme assise au chapeau (Jacqueline)", 1961
41. "Femme au chien (Jacqueline avec Kaboul)", 1962
42. "Tête de femme (Jacqueline) I", 1962
43. "Jacqueline assise avec Kaboul", 1962
44. "Buste de femme (Jacqueline)", 1962
45. "Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Jacqueline)", 1962
46. "Buste de femme au ruban jaune (Jacqueline)", 1962
47. "Femme assise (Jacqueline) 2", 1962
48. "Femme assise (Jacqueline)", 1962
49. "Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Jacqueline) II", 1962
50. "Jacqueline au chien (Kaboul)", 1962
51. "Jacqueline assise avec Kaboul II", 1962
52."Tête de femme (Jacqueline)", 1962
53. "Femme au chapeau (Jacqueline)", 1962
54. "Grand profil", 1963
55. "Portrait de Jacqueline", 1963
56. "Jacqueline assise avec son chat", 1964
57. "Buste de Jacqueline", 1964
58. "Nu assis appuye sur des coussins (Jacqueline)", 1964
59. "Portrait de Jacqueline", 1965
60. "Femme à l oreiller (Jacqueline)", 1969
61. "Femme assise (Jacqueline)", 1971

 

Jacqueline Roque (February 24, 1927 – October 15, 1986) was the second wife of Pablo Picasso and his frequent model. Picasso spent the last 20 years of his life with Roque, during which time he created more than 400 portraits of her. They had no children. 

 

Roque was married previously; from her first marriage she had a daughter, Catherine Hutin-Blay. Before meeting Picasso, she was a saleswoman at Madoura Pottery in Vallauris, Picasso's ceramic works were created. After Pablo Picasso separated from Françoise Gilot, they began their relationship.

They married in Vallauris on 2 March 1961.

Roque's image began to appear in Picasso's paintings in May 1954. These portraits are characterized by an exaggerated neck and feline face, distortions of Roque's features. Eventually her dark eyes and eyebrows, high cheekbones, and classical profile would become familiar symbols in his late paintings. It is likely that Picasso's series of paintings derived from Eugène Delacroix's The Women of Algiers was inspired by Roque's beauty; the artist commented that "Delacroix had already met Jacqueline." In 1955 he drew Jacqueline as "Lola de Valence", a reference to Edouard Manet's painting of the Spanish dancer. In 1963 he painted her portrait 160 times, and continued to paint her, in increasingly abstracted forms, until 1972.

After Picasso's death in 1973, Roque fought with his children over the distribution of the artist's estate, and agreed to establish the Musée Picasso in Madrid.
Jacqueline Roque killed herself with a gun 13 years after the death of Picasso in Mougins.