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Across the Room

ca. 1899
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 770
A leading figure in the so-called Boston School, Tarbell was deeply influenced by the French Impressionists. He also admired the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, whose light-filled interiors with women in quiet activities inspired many of his pictures. In this inventive composition, a fashionably dressed, recumbent young woman—seemingly modern in her direct engagement—is seen across an unusually wide floor on which the half-light, filtering through a Venetian blind, creates a luminous pattern of reflections. The painting was one of two by Tarbell exhibited at the Paris Exposition, where he was awarded a bronze medal.

Artwork Details

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  • Title: Across the Room
  • Artist: Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862–1938)
  • Date: ca. 1899
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 25 x 30 1/8 in. (63.5 x 76.5 cm)
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
  • Object Number: 67.187.141
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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