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Artist:Fernand Khnopff (Belgian, Grembergen 1858–1921 Brussels)
Date:1884
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:18 13/16 × 23 1/2 in. (47.8 × 59.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Bequest of Julia W. Emmons, by exchange, and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, and Gift of Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust, 2015
Accession Number:2015.263
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 813
Khnopff was a key member of the artistic vanguard that arose outside of France in the 1880s and 1890s. His sister and favorite model, Marguerite, may have posed for this painting in the family’s summer home in the Belgian countryside. Disregarding convention, Khnopff adopted a boldly angled, close-up viewpoint that emphasizes the hydrangea (hortensia, in French) over the woman reading in the background. The informality and spontaneity of the scene resonate with the work of French contemporaries, notably Edgar Degas, but the delicate colors and air of reverie are characteristic of the dreamy sensibility that would make Khnopff a guiding force of the mystical Symbolist movement.
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