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Scene from Molière's 'Le Malade Imaginaire'

Oil Painting
1871 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Egley, William Maw (painter (artist))

Oil painting, 'Scene from Molière's "Le Malade Imaginaire"', William Maw Egley, 1871


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleScene from Molière's 'Le Malade Imaginaire'
Materials and techniques
Oil on millboard
Oil Paint
Millboard
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Scene from Molière's "Le Malade Imaginaire"', William Maw Egley, 1871
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 15.8cm
  • Estimate width: 19.4cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Styles
British School
Victorian
Marks and inscriptions
'W Maw Egley. 1871' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower right)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Henry Spencer Ashbee
Object history
Bequeathed by Henry Spencer Ashbee, 1900
Literary referenceMolière, <i>Le Malade Imaginaire</i>
Bibliographic references
  • Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 80
  • D Fincham 'Three Painters of the Victorian Scene' Apollo May 1936, pp241-4
  • R Dorment British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art 1986, p101
  • French Gallery (London, England). Nineteenth annual Winter exhibition of cabinet pictures, by British and foreign artists : at the French Gallery, 120, Pall Mall, opposite the Opera colonnade.London : Bradbury, Evans & Co. 1871. No. 121.
  • Egley, William Maw, Catalogue of pictures, drawings and designs by W.M. Egley [manuscript].
  • Egley, William Maw. William Maw Egley: diaries, 1844 Jan. 22-1856 Dec. 31.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
1851-1900

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Record createdApril 11, 2007
Record URL
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