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Compare the soft strokes of the pink dress with the long tree reflections in the green water behind it.
Perry’s daughter Edith posed for this figure beside the Epte River in France. Perry painted it at Giverny in 1895, during one of many summers she spent there after becoming a friend of Claude Monet. Short, bright strokes turn the water behind Edith into a screen of reflections. The painting was shown in Philadelphia that winter and in Paris in 1896.
Oil on canvas · 65.5 × 81.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- At the River's Bend (On the River II)
- Artist
- Lilla Cabot Perry (American, 1848–1933)
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65.5 × 81.5 cm (25 13/16 × 32 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Partial gift of Abbot W. and Marcia L. Vose; through prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff; through prior gift of James D. Thornton, Mrs. Abram Poole, and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge; through prior bequest of Celia Schmidt; Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker Jr. Endowment Fund
- 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.