The Stone Breaker and His Daughter
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| Artist | Edwin Landseer |
| Year | 1830 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 45.7 cm × 58.4 cm (18.0 in × 23.0 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
The Stone Breaker and His Daughter is an 1830 genre painting by the British artist Edwin Landseer.[1] It shows a stonebreaker, one of the workers who broke rocks for the laying of new roads, in the Scottish Highlands. Landseer offers a sympathetic depiction of the weary man, exhausted by his tiring labour, and contrasts it with the fresh-faced innocence of his young daughter who has brought him his lunch basket.[2] It is also known simply as The Stonebreaker. The work was displayed at the British Institution's annual exhibition of 1830 in Pall Mall.[2] Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, having been bequeathed by the art collector John Jones.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Jenkins p.20
- ^ a b Ormond p.76
- ^ Landseer, Edwin Henry (Sir, RA) (June 7, 1830). "The Stone Breaker and His Daughter" – via Victoria & Albert Museum.
Bibliography
[edit]- Jenkins, Adrian. Painters and Peasants: Henry La Thangue and British Rural Naturalism, 1880-1905. Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, 2000.
- Ormond, Richard. Sir Edwin Landseer. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981.
See also
[edit]- The Stone Breakers, an 1849 painting by Gustave Courbet
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