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Under the Cherry Tree

Painting

Lavery, Sir John 1856-1941 (Primary maker)
Lavery, Sir John 1856-1941 (maker)
Lavery, John (Sir) 1856 - 1941 (artist)

1884
1884

Born in Belfast, Lavery began his artistic training in Glasgow. During the early 1880s he studied in Paris and made visits to the artists’ colony at Grès-sur-Loing, near Fontainebleau. At Grès Lavery was one of many young artists to set up their easels in the fields around the picturesque village and work en plein-air, a term used to describe painting in the open air. On the Loing, An Afternoon Chat (Under the Cherry Tree) is larger and more ambitious than any Lavery had previously attempted. It is a youthful masterwork, heavily influenced by Bastien-Lepage and was intended to display the painterly techniques he had recently acquired through study in France. The composition of On the Loing, An Afternoon Chat (Under the Cherry Tree) is divided into three distinct areas and Lavery employed a different technique in the painting of each. Physical Description: A riverbank scene, three figures feature. A young girl sits on a wheelbarrow beside a watering can, another slightly older girl leans on a fence made between the trees. Both appear to watch the boy on the boat with oar in hand. A stone bridge in the background.

oil on canvas

BELUM.U67

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