Japanese Lullaby
ca. 1903
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney
Accession Number
1951.14.44
Tags
Art Historical Context
Alice Pike Barney's *Japanese Lullaby*ca. 1903) captures a tender moment between a mother and child,oking the soft intimacy of a lullaby sung in a Japanese setting. This oil painting, housed in the Smithsonian American Art, reflects the artist's fascination with Eastern aesthetics during the height of Japonisme—a late 19th- and early 20th-century Westernze for Japanese art, prints, and. Barney, a prominent Washington, D.C., artist and patron known for her impressionistic portraits and theatrical scenes, infused her work with exotic themes, blending soft lighting and delicate forms to convey un...