YOUNG GIRL IN WHITE DRESS, MEDITATION (MÉDITATION)
Creator(s): Léon Jean Basile Perrault (Painter)
Currently in storage
About this object
Portrait of a teenage girl in a white dress seated on a stonewall outdoors. Her feet are bare. She wears a thin band in her hair, and stares full face out of the painting. Her dress is classical in style with a v-neck. It appears to be draped around her body and is tied around the waist with more fabric. She holds the stem of a daisy in her left hand, with the petals plucked off. She holds come of the petals in her right hand. There is a tree at the right with some ivy growing over it. The sky is grey with a little sky showing through the clouds. In the distance is a body of water and a mountain at the left. The painting was exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1881 with the title "Méditation" (no 1821).
- Object name:
- YOUNG GIRL IN WHITE DRESS, MEDITATION (MÉDITATION)
- Made from:
- Oil on canvas -- frame
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- 1881
- Size:
- 87.6 × 54 cm (34 1/2 × 21 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 51.125
- Class:
- PAINTING
- Signature marks:
- SIGNATURE; DATE L. Perrault 1881 [Signed and dated on ledge at left]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973