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Independent and unconventional, American artist Cecilia Beaux carved out a successful career for herself as a society portraitist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When she painted this work, she was completing her tenure as the first female instructor on the regular faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She had cofounded the Plastic Club, a women-only art society in Pennsylvania, in 1897.

The fashionably dressed woman caught mid-conversation is Dorothea Gilder (1882–1920). Gilder and Beaux were close friends and likely romantic partners, as suggested by the intimate letters they wrote to one another, although we cannot know for certain how they would have defined themselves. The subject of the meeting referred to in the title is left to our imagination, though the Gilder household was noted for its lively gatherings of intellectuals.

Cecelia Beaux (1855–1942), After the Meeting. Oil on canvas, 1914. 40 15/16 x 28 1/8 in. (104 x 71.4 cm). Gift of Florence Scott Libbey, 1915.163. On view in Gallery 29A.