A Bather (Echo)  1881

This painting—commissioned in 1881 by Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, a great patron of contemporary French painting and of the Metropolitan—is a replica of a well-known composition of the same year now in the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, Paris. [br] According to the artist's diary, this painting depicts a figure from Greek mythology, Echo. It was commissioned by Cather...