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The Convalescent

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Oil on canvas by Helene Schjerfbeck (1888). A young girl recovering from illness sits in a garden chair among white tulips — rendered in delicate bleached tones. Won bronze medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. Finnish National Gallery (Ateneum), Helsinki.

Scholarly Significance

Anchor Helene Schjerfbeck's practice with The Convalescent.

Notes

·Painted in Saint-Ives, Cornwall, England, where Schjerfbeck lived 1887-1889.
·Drew on Schjerfbeck's own childhood experience of long illness and recuperation.
·Won the bronze medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle — international recognition for a Finnish woman artist.
·Working in a late Realist / early Tonalist manner showing influence of Whistler and the Newlyn School Cornwall painters.