Terms and conditions of use
Colombo
1890
Medium
oil on wood panel
Measurements
15.8 × 24.4 cm irreg.
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of a special grant from the Government of Victoria, 1979
Gallery location
Level 1, NGV International
About this work
English-born Charles Conder was a major figure of Melbourne’s Heidelberg School in the nineteenth century, a group of painters who developed a unique style of Australian Impressionism and plein-air landscape painting. After six years in Australia, Conder returned to Europe by steamship in 1890. On the sixty-day journey via the Indian Ocean and Suez Canal, Colombo was an important stop to replenish provisions and provide rest for travellers. During his short stay in Ceylon, Conder produced this small oil-on-wood sketch of a Colombo street scene with people promenading along a leafy boulevard.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Colombo, Ceylon
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: C.Conder
inscribed in pencil l.r.: COLOMBO. ThuRSDAY 15 MAY / 1890
Accession Number
A45-1980
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)
Cityscapes Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
Colombo (inhabited place) pedestrians Sri Lanka (nation) street scenes streets
Provenance
Gift of the artist to Mrs Edith 'Amaryllis' Hacon (later Mrs E. G. Robichaud), The Vale, Chelsea, London, 1890s; collection of Walter Oswald Burt (1893–1969), before 1969; purchased from the Burt Estate by Jack Manton, 1969; collection of Jack Manton, Melbourne, 1969–79; from whom purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria, 1979.