The Sonnet (Lambert)
The Sonnet is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by Australian artist George Washington Lambert. The work depicts man reading a sonnet to a female companion with both seemingly unaware of a nude woman sitting between them.[1] The open-air idyll draws on other well-known works such as Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe 1863.[1] Lambert painted the work while in London. Fellow expatriates Arthur Streeton and Thea Proctor were the models for the clothed persons and Kitty Powell was the model for the nude.[1]
The painting won a silver medal at the Exposicion Internacional de Arte in Barcelona in 1911.[2] References
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