Cleveland Museum of Art
Mary Holland Bacher
Otto H. BacherLinkedCulture matchlcp-f9a24a239e28
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America, Ohio, Cleveland
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 142665
What the image shows
A woman in a light dress and hat sits on a chair holding a tennis racket.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Bacher was the first artist from Cleveland to achieve international renown, and this portrait of his wife exemplifies the Impressionist style he adopted after studying in Paris during the late 1880s. The painting’s unusual subject testifies to the emergence of tennis as one of the few sports of the era in which women could participate without being considered inappropriately masculine or uncouth. As a child, Otto Bacher liked to sketch shipping activities around Cleveland's port.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Will Low Bacher
- Provenance
- -1966: Will Low Bacher [1898-1982], the artist's son, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1966-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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