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Summers in the Country: Giverny |
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Theodore Robinson (1852–1896)
The Wedding March, 1892
Oil on canvas; 22 3/8 x 26 1/2 in. (56.7 x 67.3 cm)
Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
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The American painter Theodore Earl Butler married Monet's stepdaughter Suzanne Hoschedé in Giverny on July 20, 1892, a match that the French master opposed. This painting shows their wedding procession from the town hall to the church of Sainte Radégonde. Oddly, with the exception of the bride, the identities of the figures are not clear. Although Robinson began the painting two weeks after the wedding, describing the scene from memory, he enlisted his most fluent Impressionist technique.
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