Repose
Artist: John White Alexander (American, 1856–1915)
Original Dimensions: 52 1/4" x 63 5/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1895) "Alexander, who lived in Paris during the 1890s, achieved international success with his figure paintings of gracefully posed women in elegant interiors. In this striking composition, the model’s provocative facial expression and supple curves speak to the contemporary French taste for sensuous images of women. The bold composition also suggests the undulating linear rhythms of the Art Nouveau style, examples of which were featured at the Paris Exposition. Alexander, known as the "the painter of the flowing line," was celebrated at home and abroad for these works of sinuous grace and lyricism." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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