TitleWasherwoman
Artist
William Henry Lippincott
(1849 - 1920)
Date1881
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 13 3/4 × 10 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "Wm H. Lippincott/Couilly-1881"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number772-P
Label TextPainted at Couilly-en-Brie, France, "Washerwoman" is one of a series of French washing scenes painted by Lippincott (as evidenced by the several examples in the catalogue of his 1891 sale). Hugh R. Crean has related the present work to similar paintings by William Morris Hunt and Charles-Fran‡ois Daubigny (NAD: All Walks, 1979, 62).Lippincott pays a good deal of attention to the foreground foliage with the flattened lily pads and the many reeds, each composed of a single green stroke of paint. The woman appears to be binding her bundle of wash, ready to place it in the nearby wheelbarrow. Across the river, red and white linen hangs to dry, an indication of what will be the next stage of her toil.
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