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The rainbow
(L'Arc-en-ciel)
(late 1880s)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 50.8 × 62.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- France
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.l.: J. C. CAZIN
- Accession Number
- 564-2
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1913
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- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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After an artist passed the rigorous selection process for the Paris Salon exhibition, they were then subjected to public criticism which could make or break their careers. Popular critics, such as Émile Zola, who commented on the Salon exhibitions, were extremely powerful. Jean Charles Cazin is one artist who changed his approach to art following a negative critique of his religious painting The departure of Judith in 1883. Until then, Cazin enjoyed success painting mainly Christian imagery in a realist manner; however, as a result of criticism he started producing landscapes devoid of narrative and obvious symbolism, such as The rainbow.
- Subjects (general)
- Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- clouds farmhouses fields (land) houses rainbows shrubs weather
- Provenance
- With Barbizon House (dealer), London, by 1913; from where purchased, on the advice of Frank Gibson and Charles Ricketts, for the Felton Bequest, 1913.
