- Title:
- The Village Holiday
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- Wilkie was famous for his paintings of everyday life. Here he represents a local pub scene. Recalling the classical theme of choosing between vice and virtue, one man is torn between staying to drink with his friends or going home with his family. The man slumped in the corner on the right acts as a stark warning of the effects of drinking to excess. Between the large oil sketch made in preparation for this work, and this final version, the artist amended the composition to sit the buildings further back within the scene.This painting was purchased from the collection of Sir John Julius Angerstein to found the National Gallery in 1824. Hogarth’s The Painter and his Pug, and his celebrated series Marriage A-la Mode also formed part of the original purchase. As a living artist, Wilkie’s inclusion meant contemporary art was included from the outset in the National Gallery Collection. Hogarth’s The Painter and his Pug and this work by Wilkie were both transferred to the Tate Gallery, Millbank, during the twentieth century.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Credit line:
- Tate: Purchased 1824
- Current location:
- Room 34
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 94.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 127.60
- Inscription content:
- Signed; Dated
- Material:
- Oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- 1809-11
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1809
- Date - latest:
- 1811
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1800-24
- Object production person:
- Sir David Wilkie
- Person's birth date:
- 1785
- Person's death date:
- 1841
- Object production place:
- Britain
- Other number:
- L1357
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0CPS-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- L1357
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- NONE
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-014E-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- X2523
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- l31357
- 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:
- Regency
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8aea4e28-93fa-309b-b4b4-28833d09da66
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8aea4e28-93fa-309b-b4b4-28833d09da66, National Gallery, CC BY
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