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Celeste
Celeste

Celeste

Date1911
Artist (American painter, 1877–1950)
Illustration Citation"The Girl in the Santee," by Gouverneur Morris, in The Saturday Evening Post, May 6, 1911
MediumOil on illustration board
Dimensions21 x 16 3/4 in. (53.3 x 42.5 cm)
frame: 31 3/8 × 25 3/8 in. (79.7 × 64.5 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1983
Object number1983-29
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThis profile of young girl set against a South Carolina palm tree represents a woman rescued from a stricken French vessel that was caught in the crossfire of a Civil War battle on the Santee River. The story's narrator falls in love with her as he anticipates life after the War.
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