UNKNOWN

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

Medium

oil on canvas on plywood

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

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

Medium

oil on canvas on plywood

Measurements

41.1 × 25.6 cm

Place/s of Execution

Melbourne, Victoria

Accession Number

2004.227

Department

Australian Painting

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
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation

Gallery location

Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia

Subjects (general)

Human Figures Landscapes

Subjects (specific)

grass (plant material) hills men (male humans) trees women (female humans)

Movements

Australian Impressionism

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UNKNOWN

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