Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory
1894
- Medium
- oil on canvas glued to cardboard
- Dimensions
- 34.9 × 31.4 × 0.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109530
This painting depicts the enclosed backyard garden of a former priory—a religious building where monks and nuns live under the leadership of a prior—that Maurice Denis purchased in 1914. He transformed the building into a home for his large family and lived there for the last 30 years of his life. A woman dressed in black hangs linens to dry, so that—according to custom—they will be bleached by moonlight. The full moon casts a golden glow over the entire nighttime scene.
Provenance
Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.109
Registry history
- 1894 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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