Dancing Dryads
by 1879
- Medium
- oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 22.8 × 18 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-139630
Many American painters in the nineteenth century painted nature as a classical world of dryads, nymphs, and other imaginary creatures. Albert Pinkham Ryder was inspired by a painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot that shows dancing figures in an atmospheric, intimate landscape. In Dancing Dryads, Ryder added many layers of paint and glaze to create a thick, enamel-like surface that emphasized th…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly
Registry history
- by 1879 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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