Titles

Several possible titles have been suggested:

• 'The Gold Girl: a harmony in Yellow & Gold.' (1878/1879, C. A. Howell).
• 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold – The Gold Girl – Portrait of Miss Connie Gilchrist' (1879, Grosvenor). 1
• 'The Gold Girl' (1879, London Bankruptcy Court). 2
• 'Connie Gilchrist, dancing with a skipping rope, styled "A Girl in Gold" ' (1880, Sotheby's). 3
• 'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist' (1980, YMSM). 4

'Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist' is the preferred title.

Description

Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl – Connie Gilchrist, Metropolitan Museum of Art

A figure composition in vertical format, showing a young girl dressed in a short tunic, with a skipping rope, skipping on stage in front of a curtain. She faces three-quarter right.

Sitter

Samuel Alex Walker, Connie Gilchrist, 1880, carte de visite, V&A S.135:398-2007

Connie Gilchrist (1864-1946). She also posed for The Blue Girl: Portrait of Connie Gilchrist [YMSM 207]. She was a professional dancer as well as a professional model, being paid for modelling. 5