Falling Leaves, Allegory of Autumn
1872
175.0 x 110.0 cm
ユグ・メール(1822 – 1881)
ユグ・メール(1823-1881):ブーグローに比肩する、情緒的かつ道徳的な場面を描いたことで名高いフランスのアカデミック派画家。19世紀の生活を反映した写実的な肖像画や風俗画をご覧ください。
Merle, a friend and sometime rival of Bouguereau, was known for the sentimental images of contented rustic families that he regularly exhibited at the annual Salons. In this painting from 1872, Merle tried his hand at a loosely mythological scene of a languid young woman in the guise of Fall. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe bought the melancholic picture from the New York branch of the art gallery Goupil & Co. on February 21, 1873, while still in mourning for her father. A critic who saw the work in Wolfe’s home remarked, "Here, under russet foliage, a ripe beauty passes…. Nearby, disguised so much in shadow as to be almost invisible, little Love is running away; for this bereavement of affection is the plague of life’s Autumn, as love’s importunity is the plague of its Spring."
作品詳細
- 作品名: Falling Leaves, Allegory of Autumn
- 作家: ユグ・メール
- 制作年: 1872
- 作品サイズ: 175.0 x 110.0 cm
- 技法: Tall
- 著作権の状態: パブリックドメイン
- 主要な色: Phthalo Green
- 色相: Green to Violet Spectrum