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The Unpretentious Garden

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This painting depicts the back of the Melchers home on School Street in the village of Egmond aan den Hoef, Holland. Horizontally composed back-lawn scene; woman wearing hat seated in wicker chair sewing, at left foreground; back house behind flower border; woman in a black dress with a white apron, retreating through center arbor.
Title
The Unpretentious Garden
Date
c. 1903 - 1915
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 33 5/8 × 40 1/2 inches (85.4 × 102.9 cm)Framed: 43 1/2 × 50 3/8 × 3 1/2 inches (110.5 × 128 × 8.9 cm)
Tags
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Button Gwinnett Autograph Fund.
Accession Number
1916.5
Telfair Museums