Meditations on Gallery 827
When I started this blog I intended to tour the Met galleries in numerical order but today I was wandering in the European art section and found this wonderful painting that I did not recall seeing previously in my many trips to the Met. It's called Three Sisters by Leon Frederic, a Belgian nineteenth century artist. I was not familiar with his work. He painted many pictures of the working poor and peasants. As one of three sisters I find myself drawn to these works and there are a number of painting of sisters in the museum. Nothing is known of the girls posing peeling potatoes except that they likely came from lower. class families. Even so their bright red dresses and abundant golden hair has a richness beyond their origins. They seem so intently focussed on their work. They have a resemblance to many women in sixteenth century Flemish art that Frederic admired. I was also struck not only by how intent they are at their tasks but ...