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Source Description
During an 1886-89 stay in Paris, this Boston painter experimented with working in oils outdoors. He gradually abandoned the dark-toned palette of the Barbizon masters for the brighter colors of the French Impressionists. Hassam named this study of a nude model, painted as if posed on a cliff, after the siren in the German poet Heinrich Heine's "Die Lorelei" (1827). In the poem, the Lorelei, a water spirit dwelling in the treacherous rocks along the Rhine River, lures ships to their destruction with her tantalizing singing:Night falls as I linger, dreaming, And calmly flows the Rhine;The Peaks of the mountains gleaming In the golden sunset shine.A wondrous lovely maiden Sits high in glory there;Her robe with gems is laden, And she combs out her golden hair.
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Document identity
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39695
label
The Lorelei
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obj
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drawing
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drawing
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normalized
title
The Lorelei
description
During an 1886-89 stay in Paris, this Boston painter experimented with working in oils outdoors. He gradually abandoned the dark-toned palette of the Barbizon masters for the brighter colors of the French Impressionists. Hassam named this study of a nude model, painted as if posed on a cliff, after the siren in the German poet Heinrich Heine's "Die Lorelei" (1827). In the poem, the Lorelei, a water spirit dwelling in the treacherous rocks along the Rhine River, lures ships to their destruction with her tantalizing singing:Night falls as I linger, dreaming, And calmly flows the Rhine;The Peaks of the mountains gleaming In the golden sunset shine.A wondrous lovely maiden Sits high in glory there;Her robe with gems is laden, And she combs out her golden hair.
provenance
Purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, possibly 1905 [1]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] this painting was possibly acquired at the National Academy of Design exhibition of 1905, where it won the Thomas B. Clarke Prize
date
1904
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CC0
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en
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Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
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4
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import
dimensions
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cm
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63.8
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53.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 25 1/8 x W: 21 1/16 in. (63.8 x 53.5 cm); Framed H: 38 × W: 32 11/16 × D: 3 3/8 in. (96.5 × 83 × 8.5 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Lower right: Childe Hassam; [Date] Lower right: 1904
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oil on canvas
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