Giovanni Boldini
Italian, 1842–1931
Washerwomen
1874
During the 1870s, Boldini painted a number of landscapes in suburban locations outside Paris. In this scene, he recorded the sunlit figures, foliage, and water with broad touches of the brush. Both the subject and the handling recall the work of the emerging Impressionist artists. Boldini also made a more detailed painting of the same scene, for which this small-scale work may have served as a preparatory sketch.
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. (13.7 x 20 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.653 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Giovanni Boldini, Washerwomen, 1874, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.653
Select Bibliography
Dini, Piero and Francesca Dini. Catalogo Ragionato della Pittura a Olio con un'Ampia Selezione di Pastelli, Acquerelli e Disegni. Volume III of Giovanni Boldini, 18421931: Catalogo ragionato. Torino: Umberto Allemandi & C., 2002.
Cass, David B. and John Wetenhall. Italian Paintings 1850-1910 from Collections in the Northeastern United States. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982.
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. Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris. Exhibition catalogue. With contributions by Richard Kendall and Barbara Guidi. Ferrara, Italy: Ferrara Arte; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2009.
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. Quinsac, Annie-Paule. Ottocento Painting. Exhibition catalogue. Columbia, SC: Columbia Museum of Art, 1972. Panconi, Tiziano. Giovanni Boldini: L'Opera Completa. Firenze: Edifir Edizioni Firenze, 2002.
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. Quinsac, Annie-Paule. Ottocento Painting. Exhibition catalogue. Columbia, SC: Columbia Museum of Art, 1972. Panconi, Tiziano. Giovanni Boldini: L'Opera Completa. Firenze: Edifir Edizioni Firenze, 2002.
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Provenance
[Knoedler, Paris, sold to Clark, 6 May 1924, as Laveuses]; Robert Sterling Clark (1924–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
