Fisher Girl of Picardy
Object Details
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- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Date
- 1889
- Object number
- 1915.3.1
- Luce Center Label
- In the summer of 1889, Elizabeth Nourse traveled with her sister Louise and their Cincinnati friend Anna Schmidt around northern France. It was a bitterly cold day when Nourse painted this scene, and Anna later wrote: “I was with Elizabeth when she painted that girl on the Etaples Dunes---it was so cold and windy the model used to weep.” The model’s pink cheeks and limbs suggest the discomfort of the blustery coastal air that particular day. (Burke, “The Rediscovery of Elizabeth Nourse,” Queen City Heritage: The Journal of the Cincinnati Historical Society, Spring 1983)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Pilling
- Artist
- Elizabeth Nourse, born Mount Healthy, OH 1859-died Paris, France 1938
- Topic
- Figure group\female and child
- Landscape\coast
- French
- Landscape\France\Picardy
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 46 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (118.7 x 82.0 cm)
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- saam_1915.3.1
Fisher Girl of Picardy
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