Two Daughters in the Garden

This painting is more Impressionist in subject and colouring than Uhde’s previous works. Though the subject is carefree, the painting is not without melancholy. The Impressionist style - which Uhde has not unreservedly embraced - retains its function of characterising the girls. Admittedly Uhde has essayed a sense of the random moment and image, such as are essential to the Impressionist style, but his figures do not occupy their space with the disregard and independence of figures in Degas’s work.