The diary of Theodore Robinson, an American impressionist

Magazine Antiques, Nov, 2004 by Sona Johnston

(7) In the course of her brief marriage, Suzanne bore two children, before succumbing to a chronic illness in 1899. The following year, Butler married her older sister. Marthe (1864-1925).

(8) The painting is Femme a sa Toilette, a pastel of c. 1886-1890. It is illustrated in Paul-Andre Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. 3 (Paul Brame and C. M. de Hauke, with Arts et metiers graphiques, Paris, 1946), No. 890.

(9) August Florian Jaccaci is best known as the art editor of McClure's and Scribner's magazines.

(10) The three works showing the monument are: Washington Monument--Winter Morning (whereabouts unknown), apparently sold unfinished to the artist's wealthy acquaintance John Armstrong (Archie) Chanler (1862-1935) in December 1894; Union Square, New York (1895; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut); and Union Square, Winter (1895-1896; whereabouts unknown). The fourth, somewhat different, view is Union Square. Winter (Looking Down Broadway) (Pl. IX).

(11) For the art colony at Cos Cob, which flourished from 1890 to 1920, see Susan G. Larkin, The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore (National Academy of Design, New York, and Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001).

(12) Theodore Robinson to Claude Monet, February 6, 1896 (860757, Getty Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).

SONA JOHNSTON is the senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art.