Maria
Oil Painting
ca. 1836 (painted)
ca. 1836 (painted)
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The subject comes from Laurence Sterne's novel A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). It depicts, 'poor Maria sitting under a poplar...with her elbow in her lap…and her head leaning on one side…dressed in white'. A dog takes the place of her lost lover. The artist was the elder brother of the painter Edwin Landseer.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Maria (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting entitled 'Maria' by Charles Landseer. Great Britain, ca. 1836. |
| Physical description | Oil on canvas entitled 'Maria', depicting a woman in a white dress, seated forlornly at the side of a tree with a small dog looking up at her in concern. |
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| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
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| Summary | The subject comes from Laurence Sterne's novel A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). It depicts, 'poor Maria sitting under a poplar...with her elbow in her lap…and her head leaning on one side…dressed in white'. A dog takes the place of her lost lover. The artist was the elder brother of the painter Edwin Landseer. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 137-38 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.104[O] |
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| Record created | May 19, 2003 |
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