The Picnic Party

1854

Mary Dillwyn

Associated Names
Mary Dillwyn

Artist, Welsh, 1816 - 1906

Three women are sitting side by side under an ancient stone arch. The woman on the left is in profile, with her hair pulled back. The woman in the middle faces forward, holding an object on her lap. The woman on the right is turned slightly away. They are dressed in long skirts and dark blouses with additional fabric. Near them are a basket and a box. They sit on a stone bench with a stone archway behind them. A dog is laying on the ground in front of them.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), possibly 1987; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, on mount, right corner in brown ink: M.D. / 1854; on mount, centered in brown ink: The Picnic Party

Wikidata ID

Q64157824

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