The Passing of Summer
1912
92.0 x 76.0 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
harry watrous (Nepoznati umetnik – Nepoznati umetnik)
Explore Harry Watrous's enigmatic paintings of sophisticated women & genre scenes. A unique American artist known for detail, symbolism, & early interracial portraiture.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States of America)
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When the Metropolitan Museum acquired this painting just after it was completed, the artist explained that in the autumn of 1911 he had observed a woman seated alone at a table in a French restaurant. Watrous asked her, "Well, has Prince Charming appeared?" Her melancholy answer was "No, and this is the passing of summer." This work thus alludes to the fleeting nature of youth and beauty and the loss of opportunity. About 1905 the artist"s eyesight began to fail, and he shifted from exquisitely rendered, tiny genre scenes recalling seventeenth-century Dutch paintings to larger canvases containing idealized female figures, such as "The Passing of Summer".
O ovom umetničkom delu
- Naslov: The Passing of Summer
- Umetnik: harry watrous
- Godina: 1912
- Prvobitne dimenzije: 92.0 x 76.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Status autorskih prava: Zaštićeno autorskim pravima
- Mesto izlaganja: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Boja (ton): Green to Violet Spectrum
- Percepcija svetline: bright