Adrien Moreau
French, 1843–1906
Contemplation
1873
The solitary woman in Moreau's painting gazes down toward a duck pond. Her contemplative expression—and the painting's title—suggest that she has chosen this isolated spot to be alone with her thoughts. The woman's fashionable city clothes have been painted with a degree of detail that contrasts with the more textured brushstrokes used to describe the surrounding landscape.
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 25 5/8 x 14 15/16 in. (65.1 x 38 cm) Frame: 32 1/8 x 21 13/16 x 3 in. (81.6 x 55.4 x 7.6 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1031 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Adrien Moreau, Contemplation, 1873, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1031
Select Bibliography
Cunningham, Charles C., et al. The Elegant Academics: Chroniclers of 19th-Century Parisian Life. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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Provenance
[N. Mitchell, London, sold to Clark, 24 Sept. 1935]; Robert Sterling Clark (1935–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
