Expectation

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Balcony scene in a classical setting. A young woman lies stretched out on a marble balcony seat, facing the left of the picture. She lies on her front, on a tiger skin rug, propping her head up with her right arm, a black feather fan with an elaborate handle in her left hand, hanging down the side of the seat. She is dressed in a salmon pink dress with yellow patterned fabric wrapped around her middle, and a blue sash securing the loose dress fabric. Her dark, thick hair is pinned at the back of her head. The ends of the balcony walls are decorated with stone heads of gods. A mature tree grows next to the balcony on the far left, the tops of trees showing above the balcony wall on the right. The sea is visible in the background, with coastline in the distance, below a bright blue sky.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Expectation

Date

1900

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 46 x W 91.5 cm

Accession number

1917.243

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mr James Thomas Blair, 1917

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed on the base of the seat, br : J.W.GODWARD. 1900

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