Born in Boston, Charles Sprague Pearce joined fellow American expatriate artists such as Elizabeth Gardner, Mary Cassatt and James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and moved to Paris in 1882, working in the studio of Leon Bonnat, just as John Singer Sargent and Thomas Eakins had before him.
In August 1884, Pearce purchased a farm in Auvers-sur-Oise, a town some twenty miles northwest of Paris on the banks of the Oise River, where he would live for the next three decades. The artist enjoyed great success throughout his career, focusing on historical narratives, biblical subjects and scenes from rural life in northern France.
From a private collection in Newport, Rhode Island
Charles Sprague Pearce
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
28.75 x 23.75 inches