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The convalescent
(Convalescente)
(1884)

Medium
oil on canvas

Measurements
81.7 × 117.0 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of William Dean Esq., 1885

Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.r.: francis TATTEGRAIN / ETAPLES

Accession Number
p.310.8-1

Department
International Painting

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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