Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009398About the Artwork
Bacher was the first artist from Cleveland to achieve international renown, and this portrait of his wife exemplifies the Impressionist style he adopted after studying in Paris during the late 1880s. The painting’s unusual subject testifies to the emergence of tennis as one of the few sports of the era in which women could participate without being considered inappropriately masculine or uncouth.
Inscriptions
signed lower left: Otto H. Bacher. / --91.
Provenance
-1966: Will Low Bacher [1898-1982], the artist's son, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1966-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). American Impressionistic Painting. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (July 1-August 12, 1973); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (September 18-November 12, 1973); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (December 15, 1973-January 31, 1974); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (March 8-April 29, 1974). American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979). The Sporting Woman: The Female Athlete in American Culture. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA (organizer) (April 1-July 31, 2004). Midwestern Visions of Impressionism. Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH (organizer) (May 26-August 19, 2007); Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH (July 31-October 18, 2008).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 90.6 x 57.4 cm (35 11/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Will Low Bacher
- Accession no.
- 1966.388
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