Three Little Girls
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
39.4 × 26.7 cm (15 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
oil on panel
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
886
Art Historical Context
**Three Little Girls** by Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, painted around 1870, captures the tender innocence of childhood in a compact oil-on-panel format (39.4 × 26.7 cm). Housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of European Painting and Sculpture, this intimate work exemplifies Diaz's late-career finesse. A key figure in the Barbizon School, Diaz drew inspiration from the Fontainebleau forest near Paris, where he and fellow artists like Corot and Rousseau sought to render nature's luminous beauty with direct observation. Diaz's style blends romantic lyricism with proto-Impressi...