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Eva Meurier in a Green Dress
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About this work
Delicate, elegantly folded hands in this painting allude to the sitter’s musical abilities. Eva Meurier, the sister-in-law of the artist, was a talented pianist. Maurice Denis painted the portrait on a fragment of an abandoned picture, hints of which appear around the edges of the composition, as if Eva’s portrait is mysteriously emerging from another painting.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineEva Meurier in a Green Dress, 1891. Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943). Oil on canvas; framed: 72.7 x 56.5 x 6.4 cm (28 5/8 x 22 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.); overall: 55 x 38 cm (21 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 2002.92
