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Description: | Scene in a classical setting depicting three young women on a verandah with a heavy marble seat, overlooking the sea in the background. The seat is covered with a large tiger skin on which one of the women sits. She is wearing a white dress, with yellow fabric wrapped around her middle, and a yellow band in her hair. She leans back against the exterior wall of the building on the left, a ball of wool in her hand, which she is winding with the second woman who sits to the right. Her companion is seated on the arm of the seat, which is carved to resemble a lion foot, in a salmon pink dress secured with a blue sash, yellow printed fabric around her waist. She winds the wool between her hands, her feet resting on the tiger skin. The third woman is standing on the left, leaning back against the wall, in a blue dress underneath gold fabric fastened at her shoulder, a red band in her hair. She is sewing a yellow ribbon. Chinks of light have broken through the covering of vine growing over the verandah. Tall plants grow in the border around the verandah, with trees beyond, and the coast visible in the distance.
Technique: oil on canvas
medium: oil paint
On the Balcony by John W. Godward, 1898, (1917.191). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.1031 | Go to resource |
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