Titles

Suggested titles include:

• Possibly 'apple blossoms' (1878, C. A. Howell). 1
• 'Girl with cherry blossom' (1904, T. R. Way). 2
• 'Almond Blossoms' (1934, Robinson & Fisher). 3
• 'Girl with Cherry Blossom' (1980, YMSM). 4

'Girl with Cherry Blossom' is the generally accepted title.

Description

A composition in vertical format. A young woman in diaphanous robes, wearing a red patterned kerchief, crouches in profile to right. Her arms reach out to right to tend a small flowering tree in an orange pot standing on a small platform. Behind her is a white fence, and above it, a white awning seen against a blue sky. At upper right is the semi-circular edge of a red parasol. In front, some material is lying on the white carpeted floor.

Sitter

Unknown. The models for what may have been the original painting, The Three Girls [YMSM 088], probably included Matilda Gilchrist (b. 1828 or 1829) and Emelie 'Millie' Eyre Jones (1850-1920) .