# Spanish Lady, in Realism

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

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## The work

- Date: 1889
- Medium: Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions: 11 5/8 x 8 7/16 in. (29.5 x 21.4 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 66.1745
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[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.

4 works in the collection.

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