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This is a fairly late, & somewhat untypical work by Moore. Untypical
because. The bright orange draperies of the three women are far
stronger colours than he usually used, in his carefully colour
integrated paintings. The darkness of the background is also
unusual. Moore was the most fastidious of painters, & undertook a vast amount
of preparatory work, including initial nude studies, &
elaborate drapery.
In
other respects, however, it does represent all that is best in
the work of Moore, one of the greatest, original, & most
painstaking of 19th century artists. Initially this
painting belonged to Moore's patron & friend William
Connell, whose portrait he painted. This is not an original
Russell-Cotes purchase, though he was a great admirer of the
artist, who seems to have been on friendly terms with Merton.
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