A Summer Afternoon (The Green Apple) (1894)

Charles Edward Conder

oil on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported) Photo credit: Tate

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed ‘Conder Vétheuil 94’ bottom right.

Dimensions:

63 x 75.9 (support) cm

Accession Number:

N03837

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1924

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted to the Contemporary Art Society by Dalhousie Young (1866-1921), 1910; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1924

Relationship:

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives Dalhousie James Young

Entitled ‘A Summer Afternoon’ when first exhibited in at the New English Art Club in London in 1896, this picture was painted at Vétheuil, France, two years earlier, where the Australian artist Charles Conder had been staying during the summer of 1894 with the Kinsellas, the Blunts and the art critic and future founding member of the Art Fund and the Contemporary Art Society, D. S. MacColl (1859-1948). There were three Kinsella daughters, Louise, Josephine and Kate. Louise, the model for this picture, was a young American of great beauty who in 1894 was also sitting to the American James McNeill Whistler in Paris. She had a love-affair with Conder but afterwards married the Marchese Presbitero and lived in Italy. A watercolour of the same title was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, October 1904 (14).

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