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The Greek Festival

The Greek Festival

Artist (1840 - 1905)
Date1873
MediumWatercolour and gouache on paper
Dimensions23 x 23 cm
ClassificationsMixed Media
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Lane Gift, 1912.
Object number80
DescriptionThis picture shows two figures striding forward. The woman on the left is wearing a dark pink dress with a white cloth draped around her arms and tied around her waist. On the right is a second figure wearing a dark blue dress and carrying a metallic urn. A length of the blue dress has wrapped itself around the arm and neck of the woman, while a length of the dark pink cloth has wound and knotted itself around the waist and arm of the figure on the right.
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