Flower Girl in Holland

1887

After studying in London, Paris, and at the Hague, Hitchcock settled in 1884 in the Netherlands, living and working for twenty years in Egmond. Attracted to the region’s landscape and peasant communities, the artist specialized in scenes featuring women in traditional dress set among voluptuous, blooming flowers. Here, Hitchcock revised the environment behind the Dutch flower seller, editing out other houses nearby in favor of a bucolic vista.

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Free to download and reuse. Image courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.

Artist

George Hitchcock American, 1850–1913

Date

1887

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

79.1 × 147.3 cm (31 1/8 × 58 in.)

Origin

Holland

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

Potter Palmer Collection