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Flower Girl in Holland
George Hitchcock (American, 1850–1913)
1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 79.1 × 147.3 cm (31 1/8 × 58 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
After studying in London, Paris, and at the Hague, George Hitchcock settled in 1884 in the Netherlands, living and working for twenty years in Egmond. Attracted to the region’s landscape and peasant communities, the artist specialized in scenes featuring women in traditional dress set among voluptuous, blooming flowers. Here, Hitchcock revised the environment behind the Dutch flower seller, editing out other houses nearby in favor of a bucolic vista. Although he employed academic techniques such as fine modeling of his figures, Hitchcock nevertheless earned a reputation as a daring colorist for the brilliant hues and open brushwork that likewise characterize his compositions.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
