Fisher Girl of Picardy

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Object Details

Artist

Elizabeth Nourse, born Mount Healthy, OH 1859-died Paris, France 1938

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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

Date

1889

Object number

1915.3.1

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Painting

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

46 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (118.7 x 82.0 cm)

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Department

Painting and Sculpture

Data Source

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

Figure group\female and child

Landscape\coast

French

Landscape\France\Picardy

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk72b68e690-77d3-4838-9d2f-04d9699fe7da

Record ID

saam_1915.3.1