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Compare the vertical stripes of the blouse with the curved stripes behind the woman, then find the small dark fabric in her hands.
Pissarro wrote to Lucien in December 1895 that he was pleased with this recently completed painting, made during a group of figure studies of a model called Rosa. Here the closely observed hands and bowed head give an ordinary repair the concentrated attention often reserved for a formal portrait.
Oil on canvas · 65.4 × 54.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Woman Mending
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65.4 × 54.4 cm (25 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.); Framed: 87.7 × 75 × 10.2 cm (34 1/2 × 29 1/2 × 4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.