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| A Bather (Echo) |
Artist:Jean-Jacques Henner (French, Bernwiller 1829–1905 Paris)
Date:1881
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:38 1/8 x 27 3/4 in. (96.8 x 70.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
This painting—commissioned in 1881 by Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, a great patron of contemporary French painting and of the Metropolitan—is a replica of a well-known composition of the same year now in the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, Paris.
According to the artist's diary, this painting depicts a figure from Greek mythology, Echo. It was commissioned by Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, a great patron of contemporary French painting and of the Metropolitan, and became the first work by Henner to enter an American museum. Like the present canvas, the two other versions of this composition were also acquired by female collectors. One is now in the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, Paris; the other has not been located.
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