Childe HassamAmerican, 1859–1935Maréchal Niel Roses
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Yes, receiving visitors
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
RoomLuce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 29B
On public display.
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- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
Childe Hassam posed a young model at a mahogany table with two vases of Maréchal Niel roses, a flower named for Napoléon III’s secretary of war. Hassam believed that people were shaped by their environments, and here the hybrid roses symbolize America’s culture, which he thought had absorbed the best elements of European and Asian history. The two women in the painting, a blonde and a brunette, similarly evoke different “strains” that had blended to create an American hybrid of womanhood.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1929.6.58
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 12 days ago
- Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
