Fisher Girl of Picardy

Elizabeth Nourse, Fisher Girl of Picardy, 1889, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Pilling, 1915.3.1
Elizabeth Nourse, Fisher Girl of Picardy, 1889, oil on canvas, 46 3⁄4 x 32 1⁄4 in. (118.7 x 82.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Pilling, 1915.3.1
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Artwork Details

Title
Fisher Girl of Picardy
Artist
Date
1889
Location
Dimensions
46 3⁄4 x 32 1⁄4 in. (118.7 x 82.0 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth Pilling
Mediums
Mediums Description
oil on canvas
Classifications
Subjects
  • Figure group — female and child
  • Landscape — coast
  • Landscape — France — Picardy
  • French
Object Number
1915.3.1
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1915.3.1

Artwork Description

In the summer of 1889, Elizabeth Nourse traveled with her sister Louise and their Cincinnati friend Anna Schmidt around northern France. It was a bitterly cold day when Nourse painted this scene, and Anna later wrote: “I was with Elizabeth when she painted that girl on the Etaples Dunes---it was so cold and windy the model used to weep.” The model’s pink cheeks and limbs suggest the discomfort of the blustery coastal air that particular day. (Burke, “The Rediscovery of Elizabeth Nourse,” Queen City Heritage: The Journal of the Cincinnati Historical Society, Spring 1983)

Works by this artist (5 items)

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Elizabeth Nourse, Fisher Girl of Picardy, 1889, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Pilling, 1915.3.1
Fisher Girl of Picardy
Artist
Date1889
oil on canvas
On view
Elizabeth Nourse, Le frère et la soeur, Penmarc'h, ca. 1901, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis G. Pepper II, 1991.170
Le frère et la soeur, Penmarc’h
Artist
Dateca. 1901
oil on canvas
Not on view
Elizabeth Nourse, Flock of Geese, ca. 1883, oil on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1952.13.89
Flock of Geese
Artist
Dateca. 1883
oil on wood
Not on view
Image Not Available
Snowballs
Artist
Date1891
opaque watercolor on fiberboard
Not on view

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Fisher Girl of Picardy
about 1840, oil on canvas

ELIZABETH NOURSE
Born: Mount Healthy, Ohio 1859– Died: Paris, France 1938

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