Femme aux Fagots (Woman with a Bundle of Sticks)
Elizabeth Nourse, Femme aux Fagots (Woman with a Bundle of Sticks), ca. 1899, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Ineze Miller, public domain, 69.71
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- Title
Femme aux Fagots (Woman with a Bundle of Sticks)
- Related Titles
original language: Femme aux Fagots
translation: Woman with a Bundle of Sticks
- Artist
Elizabeth Nourse (American, active United States and France, 1859-1938)
- Date
ca. 1899
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
46 in x 32 1/2 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature/maker's mark: signature lower left E. Nourse
- Collection Area
American Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Ineze Miller
- Accession Number
69.71
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Elizabeth Nourse, like her friend Mary Cassatt, painted what she knew best—the pursuits of women. And, like Cassatt, she was one of the few women of her time to establish herself as a respected and successful artist. Where Cassatt focused her attention on the maternal and leisure pursuits of the middle- and upper classes, Nourse chose to paint working women.
She left her native Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1894 to settle permanently in France, where she often sketched and painted scenes from rural life. As in Femme Aux Fagots, these works tended toward the somber realism found in Jean-François Millet’s paintings which focused on the serious and melancholy toil of the rural population. Like Millet, Nourse’s painting is without the veils of romance that often characterized the late 19th century view of peasant life.
The historic period frame has been made possible through the generosity of the European and American Art Council.
- Exhibitions
1998 The Other Nineteenth Century Portland Art Museum
