Provenance
Mr. Ralph Fastnedge DFC (Curator of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight)
Thence by descent

Children resting in the fields at hay-time and harvest remained one of Clausen's most important subjects during the years up to his return to permanent residence in London in 1905. The present study is one of several to be connected with Clausen's Summer in the Fields [fig.1], a painting that underwent a long period of gestation around 1897.

In some sketches the head faces left, in others, right. Often at this time, in planning a composition the artist would reverse figures using tracing paper. Other studies exist in the Victoria and Albert Museum and in private collections, and the girl may be based on Emmy Wright a Widdington child who began to pose for the artist within eighteen months of his arrival in the village.

We are grateful to Professor Kenneth McConkey for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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