Two Washerwomen Crossing a Small Park in Paris

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1890

Jean François Raffaëlli (French, 1850–1924)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean-François Rafaëlli
Title: Two Washerwomen Crossing a Small Park in Paris
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1885–1895
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: JF Raffaelli
Dimensions: 59.2 × 81 cm (23 5/16 × 31 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Janis H. Palmer
Reference Number: 1985.262
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“Acquisitions,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1985–86 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), p. 71, fig. 41.
Britany Salsbury, Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023), 121, 132 (ill.), 204 cat. 25.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1910, cat. 50.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism, Oct. 8, 2023-Jan. 14, 2024, cat. 25.

Presumably Potter Palmer (died 1902), Chicago; his widow, Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918) [lent by her to Chicago 1910]; by descent to her great-grandson Gordon Palmer (died 1964); his widow Janis H. Palmer (died 1984); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1985.

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