Along the Seine

The panel is 29 centimetres across and 16 high, one of the smallest paintings in the gallery. The state record describes what is on it without embellishment, a well-dressed woman with a parasol, seated along the Seine.

Zandomeneghi had been living in Paris since 1874, and in those years he was also drawing fashion plates for magazines, the small figures that showed readers what was being worn. He still sent paintings home. In 1879 this one hung at the Promotrice in Florence, the city's annual selling show, under the title Luna di miele, Honeymoon. The Gallerie degli Uffizi now catalogue it as Lungo la Senna, and Honeymoon survives only as the name it was exhibited under.

Their own record reads the long narrow shape as a Tuscan habit, the format the Macchiaioli liked, and the colour as something he picked up in France.