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Each work depicts the same similarly attired young woman, pensively standing or seated in a darkened room before an open window that reveals a glimpse of bright countryside. Homer evidently thought At the Window the most compelling of these, as it was this picture he chose to exhibit the following year at the Century Association in New York, where the Evening Post deemed it \"strongly painted and admirably drawn.\" A subsequent review moved beyond concerns of facture to convey some of the image’s mysterious appeal, describing a \"young woman sitting in quiet shadow, while outside the world is gay with rollicking sunshine.\" The identification of the woman in still another account as \"a Salem girl,\" referring to the Massachusetts seaport, provides a plausible underlying narrative for all the paintings, as the sitter — whose distinctive black dress likely signifies mourning — becomes the bereaved companion of a sailor lost at sea. If this hypothesis is true, then these works anticipate by a decade Homer’s engagement with the theme of men and the sea, which was to become a crucial part of his overarching preoccupation with man’s struggle against nature. ","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"In 1872, Homer produced a group of four related scenes remarkable for their interiority of setting and mood. Each depicts the same, similarly attired woman, pensively standing or seated in a darkened room before a window opening onto bright countryside. Homer evidently thought At the Window the best of these paintings, as it was this picture he chose to exhibit the following year in New York. A reviewer conveyed some of the image’s mysterious appeal, describing a “young woman sitting in quiet shadow, while outside the world is gay with rollicking sunshine.” The identification of the woman elsewhere as “a Salem girl,” referring to the Massachusetts seaport, provides a plausible underlying narrative, in which she becomes the bereaved companion, dressed in black mourning clothes, of a sailor lost at sea. At the Window thus anticipates Homer’s later engagement with the theme of the relationship of humans to a powerful and often unforgiving nature.\n","remarks":"AMER2_23-27_WLA Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Mr. Van Cleef [1]; [Babcock Art Galleries, 1919]; sold by the above through dealer Henry Antonville to a Mr. Levinson (?) [2], 1921. Acquired by Michael J. Bosak (1869-1937), Scranton (PA), by 1934; [John Levy Galleries, New York (NY), 1934, unsold and returned to agent Henri Antonville on Mr. Bosak’s instruction [3]]; eventually bequeathed to Francis C. M. Bosak (1909-1992) and Mrs. Mildred Ruth (Hausser) Bosak, Moscow (PA), 1937; bequeathed to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1985.\n\n[1] He was a salesman at Knoedler’s.\n[2] According to a report by scholar Lloyd Goodrich, who inquired with Babcock Galleries and conducted additional investigation into the provenance of the painting, the","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1872,"sortnumber":"1985 38y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:32:07.816835","objectid":32898,"dimensions":"57 × 40 cm (22 7/16 × 15 3/4 in.)\r\nframe: 81 × 63.5 × 7.6 cm (31 7/8 × 25 × 3 in.)","on_view":true}