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Sylvan Toilette signed 'Carroll Beckwith' (lower right) oil on canvas 28 x 20 in. (71.1 x 50.8 cm.) EXHIBITION New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1952-1917), December 1999-January 2000, no. 49, illustrated NOTES Executed in 1898. Methods of European painting had a strong effect on Beckwith's work toward the end of the 19th Century. In Sylvan Toilette, one is reminded of Edouard Manet, whose style is evoked here through the use of dramatic light and the strong contrast of the woman's contour set against the garden in the background. Beckwith thought highly of Sylvan Toilette, exhibiting the painting on numerous occasions between 1898 and 1916. "When it was exhibited at the Society of American Artists in 1898, a reviewer praised the work as a 'strong piece of color. The luminous quality of the flesh in the principal figure deserves more than the passing mention,' while another felt the 'flesh tones are as good as in the work of [Willliam] Etty.'" (P. Marchetti Franchi and B. Weber, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), New York, 1999, p. 69).