- Title:
- On a Journey
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- An old man seated in a train carriage is interrupted in his reverie by our arrival with its hope that the boredom of a long journey will be alleviated. The painting is a character study of a uniquely modern experience, train travel, for which the model was Mancini’s father, Paolo, formerly a tailor in Naples. In the years around 1900 he lived with his son in Rome, overseeing his precarious mental health and frequently posing for him. The intensely worked surface of the painting, especially in subsidiary areas like the man’s clothing, makes the painting somewhat difficult to read, but such effects were much admired by contemporary collectors. One was his London patroness Mary Hunter, who arranged to show the painting at the Royal Academy in 1904, bestowing on it the French title En voyage. It came to the National Gallery with the Hugh Lane Bequest of 1917.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1917-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1917
- Date - latest:
- 1917
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Credit line:
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 459/402/289/mid_N-3256-00-000010.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 96.50
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 57.80
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian
- Object production date:
- about 1903
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1903
- Date - latest:
- 1903
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1900-24
- Object production person:
- Antonio Mancini
- Person's birth date:
- 1852
- Person's death date:
- 1930
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Rome
- Other number:
- NG3256
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GHI-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3256
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04OY-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33256
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- 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:
- three-quarter length portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- post-Impressionist
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 404
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 139)
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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