Frederick McCUBBIN

Home again
1884

Medium

oil on canvas

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of G. J. Coles and Company Pty Ltd, Governor, 1981

Gallery location: Not on display

About this work

Frederick McCubbin painted this work while a student of George Folingsby at the National Gallery School, Melbourne. It shows the influence of Folingsby’s teaching in its domestic genre, dramatic storyline, carefully controlled lighting and a grey-brown palette enlivened with red and purple. McCubbin has given this mid-Victorian narrative a strong Australian flavour with a bearded swagman, bedroll on his shoulder, returning home.

Artwork Details

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

85.0 × 123.0 cm

Place/s of Execution

Melbourne, Victoria

Inscription

inscribed in black paint F / MEL
overinscribed first inscription in brown paint F. McCUBBIN / 1884

Accession Number

A2-1981

Department

Australian Painting

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of G. J. Coles and Company Pty Ltd, Governor, 1981
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation

Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Emotions and Mental States Human Figures Interiors

Subjects (specific)

arrivals dog (species) domesticity home (concept) homes journeys spouses swagman

Movements

Australian Impressionism Heidelberg School

Frame

By J. & T. Thallon, 1882-88, fitted to the painting 2002, surface not original