Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid painting's canvas was almost certainly cut from the same bolt used for "Woman with a Lute". "Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid" is the first of the artist's experiments with centrifugal composition; where the focus is not only from the centre of the canvas. In addition, it is his third work in which the drama and dynamic is not centred on a single figure. The maid is shown standing in the mid-ground, behind her lady, with her hands crossed and waiting for the letter to be completed. The positions of their bodies indicate that the two women are disconnected.
The Dude's Experience with a Girl on a Tandem the other girls on the beach. The Dude's Experience with a Girl on a Tandem The Dude's Experience with a Girl on a Tandem, also known as The Dude and the Bathing Girl, is a silent, comedy film made in August 1898 by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. The film location was Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. The plot revolves around a young man on the beach who is persuaded to join a lady in a bathing costume on a tandem bicycle, during which she drives it into the water, when he is dragged off