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Compare the two raised arms, then the mountains on either side: how closely does one half of the picture mirror the other?
A woman stands on a rock among mountains and clouds, facing straight out with both arms raised. The canvas is about two meters tall. Hodler’s catalogue raisonné lists it under two German titles, Der Tag (Day) and Die Wahrheit (Truth). It dates the painting 1899–1902, later than the museum’s date of 1896/98.
Oil on canvas · 200.5 × 105 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Day (Truth)
- Artist
- Ferdinand Hodler Swiss, 1853–1918
- Date
- 1896/98
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 200.5 × 105 cm (79 × 41 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph Winterbotham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1853–1918
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.