Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
123.3 × 200.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of an anonymous donor, 1905
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.l.: HARE (line through HARE)
Accession Number
201-2
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
History and Legend Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
imprisonment martyrs nudes (representations) prison cells reclining repose (activity) women (female humans)
Provenance
The artist, 1891–1904; Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, London, 1891, no. 489 (as The victory of faith); World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, Fine Arts section (Dept. K): Great Britain, Gallery 15, no. 204; Salon de 1894, Paris, no. 9803 (as Une victoire de la foi); Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, London, 1903, no. 711 (as “Miserere Domine!”; Exhibition of Works by Irish Painters, Guildhall, London, 1904, no. 64 (as “MISERERE DOMINE!” The Victory of Faith); Gift of an anonymous donor, 1905.
Exhibited Royal Academy, London, 1891, no. 489; World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, Fine Arts section (Dept. K): Great Britain, Gallery 15, no. 230; Salon, Paris, 1894, no. 903; Exhibition of Irish Painting, Guildhall, London, 1904, no. 64; Queensland Art Fund: Exhibition of Pictures from the Southern States; Brisbane Art Gallery, 1930, no 18; The First Fifty Years: 19th Century British Art from the Gallery Archives, Melbourne, 1992, no. 29; Hidden Treasures, David Jones’ Art Gallery, Sydney, 1992.
Frame
Original, by Chapman Bros., London