Rupert BUNNY
Nausicaa's serving maids
(c. 1926-c. 1929)

Medium
oil on canvas

Measurements
(150.2 × 180.0)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1946

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Inscription
inscribed in blue paint l.r.: RCWB (monogram)

Accession Number
1682-4

Department
Australian Painting

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Subjects (general)
History and Legend Human Figures Literary and Text

Subjects (specific)
laundresses literary characters maids (servants) nudes (representations) Odyssey (epic poem, Homer, 8th century BCE) servants washing (cleaning) women (female humans)

Colourman
LEFEBVRE FOINET

Location of stamp
Upper centre reverse of canvas. Also written in white chalk on reverse of left stretcher member "Lefevre" (sic)

Transcript
TOILES & COULEURS/EXTRA FINES/LUCIEN LEFEBVRE-FOINET/PARIS/19 RUE VAVIN & 2 RUE BREA

Medium
Ink stencil

More Information
National Portrait Gallery

Guide Labreuche (FR)