Two girls in white light paper lanterns in a Cotswold garden of lilies, roses and carnations as day fades. They are Dolly and Polly Barnard, daughters of the illustrator Frederick Barnard. Sargent painted outdoors in the few minutes of dusk light each evening, over two summers at Broadway, and the Tate bought the picture in 1887 through the Chantrey Bequest.
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The title comes from the refrain of a popular song. When the real flowers died in autumn, Sargent carried on painting with artificial ones.
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