- Title:
- Two Gallant Scenes
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- In these two paintings, Fountain in a Park and Meeting Place of the Hunt, a number of figures on horseback and on foot gather beside a fountain. Their similar compositions, identical sizes and the fact that they are painted on matching wooden panels, suggest that they are companion pieces. They have both been dated on the basis of style to about 1875–80.These imagined scenes, in which elegant figures wearing colourful dress enjoy themselves in parks and gardens, evoke eighteenth-century paintings known as fêtes galantes initiated by Jean-Antoine Watteau, a favourite subject for Monticelli throughout his career.In his later years subject matter became subordinated to his distinctive colourful and thickly painted style. Presented as part of the 'Harry Wearne Collection of Twelve Paintings by Monticelli' to the Tate Gallery in 1939, these two paintings were transferred to the National Gallery in 1956.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- about 1875-80
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1875
- Date - latest:
- 1880
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Adolphe Monticelli
- Person's birth date:
- 1824
- Person's death date:
- 1886
- Other number:
- GROUP42
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0HON-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG5011-NG5012
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-06MM-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- NG5011-NG5012
- Other number type:
- Display Number
- Other number:
- group142
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- Impressionist
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/08f8d3bc-b494-39cd-92bb-f9f1399c50fc
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/08f8d3bc-b494-39cd-92bb-f9f1399c50fc, National Gallery, CC BY
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