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C. Moloney
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (after)
Virgin of the Rosary (c. 1869)
oil on canvas
167.0 × 112.8 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1870
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Virgin of the Rosary
(c. 1869)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
167.0 × 112.8 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1870
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Accession Number
p.302.2-1
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Another Work Human Figures Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian character) copies (derivative objects) Jesus Christ (Christian character) Madonna and Child (Christian theme) Madonna of the Rosary (Christian theme) paintings (visual works) rosaries
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist, on the advice of John Phillip RA, c. 1869; arrived Melbourne 1870.
Frame
Original, by James Bourlet, London
Frame
The frame is in the style of a Watts frame, though here we see it in a variant form using a smooth flat. The Watts frame was a popular style, named after the painter G. F. Watts, who used it extensively.2 It is to be found on paintings over an extended period and in various forms. The surface of this frame is very similar in finish to another frame by Bourlet in the collection, the frame on Frank Walton’s ‘Summer has gone on swallows wings.’
Notes
1 Bourlet was an early supplier of frames to the Gallery. The NGV’s ‘Accounts from Europe’, 1 Volume, PROV 5872 notes: paid J Bourlett (sic) £13.18 for picture frames (20/3/1869). We have no record of which frames these were. A further £30.8.2 was paid to A. T. Thomson (20/10/1869) for picture frames; both frame maker and frames remain unknown to us. As late as 21 January 1949 there is an account for sixteen picture frames from James Bourlet & Sons, to the value of £141/3/– (again the pictures are not itemised) and Bourlet was suggested in 1950 as a source of a frame for a Rembrandt portrait. I am grateful to Liana Fraser for this reference (from research carried out in various archives for the Conservation Department in 1995).
2 See entries under W. A. Smith for two examples of Watts frames on paintings by the artist.
Frame Details
Framemaker
James Bourlet
London
Date
1870
Materials
The frame is built from three principal wooden sections, which are mitred at the corners. The central section is a flat, which would more commonly be veneered but is here finished with a smooth, satin finish gold leaf. The outer section carries four sections of composition ornament. The third section, which forms the sight edge, carries another run of cast leaves, which are centred on all sides. The flat is braced into the structure with blocks at intervals along the sides and across the corners. The whole surface appears to be gilded with gold leaf and finished with a matte size. The gilding is sufficiently strong to almost hide the intersections of the leaves, particularly on the flat.
Frame Condition
The frame is in good original condition. The surfaces have not been reworked. There are a number of losses in the composition sections, particularly the run of leaves near the sight edge.
Dimensions
202.0 x 148.0 x 8.0 cm; sight 165.0 110.5 cmMore Information
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