# ID this painting I barely remember **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146 "2016-07-17T19:51:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/1 "2016-07-17T19:51:27Z")
I saw it just once on one of those “most beautiful paintings” list. It looked like it was from the late 19th century but it could have been from the early 20th. Symbolism or Magic Realism. It showed a row of young girls in white dresses holding hands and walking down a hill, diagonally across the painting. Behind them, right in the centre, was a single big tree. The painter’s name may have been Germanic in origin. I know, it’s a long shot :o . ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/2 "2016-07-17T20:00:34Z")
Frühlingsreigen, by Maximilian Lenz. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/3 "2016-07-17T20:05:56Z")
I love this place :D. Thanks a lot ! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/4 "2016-07-17T20:28:19Z")
For those of us just following along at home: [Frühlingsreigen, by Maximilian Lenz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Maximilian_Lenz_-_Fr%C3%BChlingsreigen_(1913).jpeg). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/5 "2016-07-17T20:31:48Z")
I’ll take Austrian Art-nouveau painters for $500, Alex. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/6 "2016-07-17T21:20:26Z")
“Long shot”. 9 minutes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/7 "2016-07-17T22:14:57Z")
Speaking as a foot partialist… ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/8 "2016-07-18T01:58:10Z")
It looks like they were playing that whip game and came upon the tree and had to split. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/9 "2016-07-18T05:24:04Z")
Let down that I didn’t see the poker-playing dogs.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/10 "2016-07-18T09:06:16Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > “Long shot”. 9 minutes. 😃 Yeah :D. Well, my description was very rudimentary, hence the “long shot” but I never doubted dopers’ wide culture. I asked this question on other forums over the years and got loads of interesting answers but never the right one. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/11 "2016-07-18T11:45:58Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > I never doubted dopers’ wide culture. Er, yes; that’s clearly the explanation, since I’m totally not just some guy who did a quick Google Image Search for “painting”+“white dresses”+“holding hands”+“tree”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/12 "2016-07-18T17:22:14Z")
Are they the color-blind runners-up in the “Morticia Addams’ Look Alike Contest”? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/13 "2016-07-18T18:03:15Z")
Well, that will creep out any “Carnivále” fans… ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/14 "2016-07-18T18:34:14Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Er, yes; that’s clearly the explanation, since I’m totally not just some guy who did a quick Google Image Search for “painting”+“white dresses”+“holding hands”+“tree”. 😉 I did try several Google searches over the years and found lots of nice paintings but not this one. You mean you didn’t know it before searching :dubious: ? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-painting-i-barely-remember/760146/15 "2016-07-18T20:34:38Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > I did try several Google searches over the years and found lots of nice paintings but not this one. > > You mean you didn’t know it before searching :dubious: ? I didn’t. Honest. If you punch in that same search I just mentioned, made up entirely of stuff you put in your first post, that painting currently pops up as the first hit. You’ve maybe done searches on the _other_ stuff, the stuff you could’ve had wrong, the stuff I disregarded – “Magic Realism”, “Symbolism”, “19th century”, “Germanic” – but I figured you weren’t wrong about the tree and the white dresses and the hand-holding. (Likewise, you’ll note I didn’t search on “young girls” – in part because I don’t want to put “young girls” in my image search history, but in part because maybe they were _women,_ or fairies, or goddesses, so why risk letting your preconceptions lead me wrong?) Then again, maybe you did a search in years past with _exactly_ the same terms I tried, and got nothing because it wasn’t up yet, and so didn’t try it again yesterday because you’d learned from experience – whereas I, having _no_ experience to learn from, simply tried it for the first time and struck gold. Who knows? I’m just glad I could help.