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(Figures on a hillside, twilight)

(Figures on a hillside, twilight)
(1890s)

Medium
oil on canvas on plywood

Measurements
41.1 × 25.6 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
Public domain

Gallery location
Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia

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About this work

This painting was found in the studio of Tom Roberts after his death and was presumed by his biographer, R. H. Croll, to be by the artist. More recently the sketch, which is unsigned, has been assigned to Arthur Streeton and dated to his Heidelberg period, 1888 to 1890, when he and his painting companions lived there and were joined at weekends by friends from Melbourne. Further research and scientific examination will, no doubt, eventually solve the puzzle of this interesting sketch, which does indeed concern itself with issues that exercised the minds of the Heidelberg School painters.

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria

Accession Number
2004.227

Department
Australian Painting

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