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Madame Pfund

Madame Pfund
(1887)

Medium
oil on canvas on composition board

Measurements
142.7 × 98.9 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1948

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria

Accession Number
1830-4

Department
Australian Painting

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Frame

Madame Pfund by Tom Roberts, had been framed with a Louis XIV composition frame, dated to the 1920s and consistent with the early reframing of Buvelot's Summer afternoon, Templestowe (p.300.5-1) and Charles Condor's While daylight lingers (1391-4).  Painted and distressed composition variants of the Louis XIV style remained current for many years and frames like this might easily have been produced through the 1940s.

The reframing of the painting became a priority in the preparation for a Tom Roberts retrospective exhibition in 1996-7.

The frame selected as a prototype for Madame Pfund appeared on Tom Roberts' Louise, daughter of the Hon L.L. Smith (4647-3).  This project coincided with the reframing of Roberts' Lily Stirling (A13-1980) and Evening when the quiet east flushes faintly with the sun's last look (1375-4).

The frame, made from Jelutong, water gilded and distressed, was fitted to the painting in 1996.

Frame Details

Framemaker
Reproduction - commissioned by the NGV

Date
2011

Materials

Jelutong wood profile, water gilded.