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Follow the pale sleeve down to the hands, then find the small red cherries beside them. How does that tiny patch of color change where you look?
Gonzalès dressed this model as an eighteenth-century servant, using the cap, striped gown, and rolled sleeve to suggest a role from the past. It is a staged image rather than a record of contemporary domestic work. Against the nearly black background, the illuminated face and forearm become the picture’s strongest shapes.
Oil on canvas · 56.2 × 47.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Girl with Cherries
- Artist
- Eva Gonzalès (French, 1849–1883)
- Date
- c. 1870
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 56.2 × 47.4 cm (22 1/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Framed: 83.9 × 75 × 12.1 cm (33 × 29 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- 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.