Old Chelsea with Children Playing
Paul CORNOYER
(American, 1864-1923)
Old Chelsea with Children Playing
Date1890s
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 21 1/4 x 26 in. (54 x 66 cm)
frame: 27 1/2 x 32 1/2 in. (69.9 x 82.6 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Dr. Ronald Lawrence
Object number1976.48.1
Subject(s)
- play
- garden
- architecture
- boys
- girls
Collection
- 19th century American
- American
Sub-Collection(s)
- American
On View
On viewLabel TextSt. Louis-born, Cornoyer traveled to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian with Jules Lefebvre and Benjamin Constant. When he returned to his hometown, having become adept at an Impressionist technique, he grew discouraged at the lack of interest in his art. He moved to New York in the 1890s where he found a more sympathetic clientele, specifically for street scenes such as this one. Like Childe Hassam and Colin Campbell Cooper, his fellow American Impressionists, Cornoyer provided intimate portraits of well-known Manhattan neighborhoods. His most celebrated paintings are rendered with a careful eye for the atmospheric effects wrought by season, time of day, and weather, as in this idyllic park scene.
