# The Girl by the Window, in Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch painted this in 1893, aged 30. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> Edvard Munch’s life and art have come to epitomize modern notions of anxiety. Created the same year as his renowned The Scream , this painting depicts a young girl in her nightgown gazing out at the city from her darkened room.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1893
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 96.5 × 65.4 cm (38 × 25 3/4 in.); Framed: 110.5 × 79.4 × 8.9 cm (43 1/2 × 31 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.50
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Edvard Munch](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edvard-munch), Norwegian, 1863–1944

Munch trained in Kristiania, now Oslo, and spent long periods in Paris and Berlin in the 1890s, where he developed The Frieze of Life, a cycle on love, anxiety and death that includes The Scream.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Edvard Munch's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-edvard-munch?hang=750) (8 works)
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