Griselda
Oil Painting
1840 (painted)
1840 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Here Leslie has illustrated a character from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The long-suffering heroine Griselda in 'The Clerk's Tale' was a popular subject with 19th-century artists becuase she represented patience and loyalty, both considered to be desirable character traits in Victorian women, especially wives. The same sitter appears in a different role in Leslie's painting The Toilette (FA.125[O]).
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Griselda (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'Griselda', Charles Robert Leslie, 1840 |
| Physical description | Oil painting |
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| Style | |
| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Literary reference | 'The Clerk's Tale' from The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer |
| Summary | Here Leslie has illustrated a character from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The long-suffering heroine Griselda in 'The Clerk's Tale' was a popular subject with 19th-century artists becuase she represented patience and loyalty, both considered to be desirable character traits in Victorian women, especially wives. The same sitter appears in a different role in Leslie's painting The Toilette (FA.125[O]). |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 173 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.128[O] |
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| Record created | May 21, 2003 |
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