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The convalescent

The convalescent
(Convalescente)
 (1884)

Medium
oil on canvas
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of William Dean Esq., 1885
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Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
81.7 × 117.0 cm
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.r.: francis TATTEGRAIN / ETAPLES
Accession Number
p.310.8-1
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of William Dean Esq., 1885
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
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Subjects (general)
Architecture Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
ill (people) illness repose (activity) treating (health care function) windows

Frame

This frame, thought to be contemporary with the painting, is in a Louis XIV revival, Barbizon style. It is composed of composition ornament on a wooden profile with burnished and matt gilding.
It is a style of frame that appears on a number of paintings in the collection across a relatively wide period, see for example the frames on Gustave Dore, Little Red Riding Hood (Le Chaperon rouge) c.1862, (1061-5), and John Singer Sargent, Hospital at Grenada 1912 (1337-3), which retains the makers label of C. M. May.

Frame Details

Framemaker
Unknown - 19th century
Date
1884
Materials

timber, composition, gold leaf

Frame Condition

losses in the composition ornament

Dimensions
117 x 150 x 12 cm

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