| Under the Cherry Tree | |
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| Artist | John Lavery |
| Year | 1884 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 150.8 cm × 150.4 cm (59.4 in × 59.2 in) |
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Under the Cherry Tree is an 1884 oil painting by the Irish artist John Lavery. While studying in Paris Lavery paid visit to the artist's colony at Grez-sur-Loing. This was one of his most ambitious early painting. It has also been known by the alternative title On the Loing, an Afternoon Chat. It depivts a scene on the River Loing where a laundress accompanied by a child stops her work for a conversation with a passing boatmen.
One of the Glasgow Boys, Lavery was an important figure in the development of British Impressionism. Although produced inEn plein air this painting also reflects the Realism that he had seen at the Paris Salon.
The painting is now part of the collection pf the Ulster Museum in Belfast, having been in 1929.
