Lilla Cabot Perry
Lilla Cabot Perry was an American artist who worked in the American Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Perry was an early advocate of the French Impressionist style and contributed to its reception in the United States.
In Lady with a Bowl of Violets, Cabot Perry reveals her deep affinity for the light-filled colors and expressive brushwork of Impressionism.
Painted after the Perry family returned from Tokyo, the composition includes a Japanese woodblock print and a simple floral arrangement positioned behind the sitter’s head. Both elements are boldly cropped, an approach influenced by traditional Japanese aesthetics. This influence also extends to the striking compositional openness on the left side of the canvas, evoking the minimalist sensibility of Japanese art.
Perry employed the loose, painterly strokes characteristic of the Impressionists. With just a few confident sweeps of her brush, she captured the texture of the young woman’s skin and the weighty white lace adorning her gown. The vivid orange highlights are reflections of the warm glow cast by a nearby hearth.
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