Maréchal Niel Roses
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Object Details
- Artist
- Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935
- Luce Center Label
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly
- 1919
- Object number
- 1929.6.58
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 26 1/2 x 32 5/8 in. (67.2 x 82.8 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 29B
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- State of being\mood\meditation
- Figure female\waist length
- Object\art object\painting
- Object\flower\rose
- Record ID
- saam_1929.6.58
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7ea5775a5-8da7-4cf1-9ab2-15b6b0a0c4e5
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