Oil on canvas laid down on board, signed at lower right, inscribed en verso "A present from Mrs Breckenridge / Mr Breckenridge / ... Christmas '92", matted and framed under glass.

Sheet size 5 x 7 in. Frame dimensions 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.

Hugh Henry Breckenridge studied from 1887 to 1892 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he then taught for over forty years. He trained in the early 1890s at the Académie Julian with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and traveled throughout Europe with the Pennsylvania Impressionist Walter E. Schofield. Breckenridge's works of the time reveal the influence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and fascination with color.

A second trip to Europe 1909 made Breckenridge aware of more avant-garde trends, and he began working in the Neo-Impressionist style. Breckenridge is represented in numerous national museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans.


The canvas has been cut and laid on a pressed paper board with unknown adhesive; toning to mat; foxing to board; some fraying to edge of canvas; no visible retouching.