The Country Girl
Artist
George Clausen
(1852 - 1944)
MediumEtching and drypoint on paper
Dimensions14 x 10 cm
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by George Clausen (the Artist).
Object number423
DescriptionThis etching is a full face, waist length study of a young girl; her right hand slightly raised. Her head and shoulders have been etched in detail, while the remainder is only roughly sketched. She is wearing a loose cloth bonnet.Clausen attended the design classes at the South Kensington schools from 1867-1873 with great success. He then worked in the studio of Edwin Long, R.A., and subsequently in Paris under Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury. He became one of the foremost modern painters of landscape and of peasant life, influenced to a certain extent by the impressionists with whom he shared the view that light is the real subject of landscape art.
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