# Spanish Lady

**Louis M. Eilshemius** (New Jersey, 1864–1941)  
1889  
Watercolor on paper  
11 5/8 x 8 7/16 in. (29.5 x 21.4 cm)

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 66.1745. [The museum's record](https://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg_66.1745).

## About this work

Louis M. Eilshemius painted this in 1889, aged 25. It is now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

### How it was made

- **Watercolour.** Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.

### [Louis M. Eilshemius](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/louis-m-eilshemius)

New Jersey, 1864–1941

Eilshemius studied in New York and at the Académie Julian in Paris and travelled widely, as far as Samoa, painting romantic landscapes and nudes that found few admirers. Marcel Duchamp singled out his work at the 1917 exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, and modernist circles later championed him, but he had stopped painting around 1921 and spent his last decades writing eccentric, self-promoting pamphlets and letters.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- The artist was 25
- Real size: about 12 × 8½ in (30 × 21 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Realism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/realism)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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