Nathaniel Hone the Younger
, Irish, 1831-1917
Title
A Girl in a White ShawlDate1857
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions
39 x 25 cm
Credit LineBequeathed, Mrs Hone, the Artist's Widow, 1919 (Accessioned 1951)
Object numberNGI.1479
Exhibition HistoryThe Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium, 1850-1914, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 9 October - 18 November 1984; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1 February - 10 March 1985
Nathaniel Hone the Younger 1831-1917, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 19 June - 4 August 1991
Label TextHone produced this picture on his second visit to the village of Marlotte, near Fontainbleau. He travelled on this occasion with the Bohemian artist Sobeslav Pinkas (1827-1901), a fellow student at the atelier of Thomas Couture in Paris. A study by Pinkas of the same girl – viewed from a slightly different angle and entitled Shepherdess from Marlotte – is in the National Gallery in Prague. These paintings demonstrate that artist-friends often continued the practice, encouraged among students, of working simultaneously from the same motif. Hone moved to Bourron-Marlotte around 1863.