# Three Girls and River

- By: Louis M. Eilshemius (born Arlington, NJ 1864-died New York City 1941)
- Date: 1907
- Medium: oil on fiberboard
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 23 x 27 in. (58.5 x 68.5 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Louis and Annette Kaufman
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=7979)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/42c0811a7f22e87c5fc1d485a1c1b550.jpg
- Who can see it: Adult profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Louis M. Eilshemius is best known for his romanticized and often erotically charged landscapes that contain nude women or nymphs. In Three Girls and River, three nude women relax in a bucolic setting with lush trees and a babbling river. The figures seem to be together, but they do not interact and appear blissfully uninhibited by each other and their surroundings. By placing the dreamlike figures in a picturesque yet familiar setting, Eilshemius blurred the line between reality and fantasy.