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Artist: Charles Conder

Date: 1888

Size: 67 x 72 cm

Museum: Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

Arriving in Australia as an adolescent in 1884, Charles Conder became one of the key founders of the Heidelberg school of Australian impressionism. He returned to Europe six years later to become a legendary figure of the fin de siècle, mixing with leading artists and writers including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Oscar Wilde.Exhibited in Sydney in 1888,