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 (2 items)

Max Kalish, Man of Steel, before 1933, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Max Kalish, 1933.1.1
Man of Steel
Artist
Datebefore 1933
bronze
Not on view
Max Kalish, The End of Day, 1930, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Max Kalish, 1933.1.2
The End of Day
Artist
Date1930
bronze
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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