Love's pilgrimage
1876
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 120.5 × 80.0 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.r.: N. Gysis. / 76.
- Accession Number
- p.310.2-1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1884
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- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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In 1877, when this painting was exhibited at London’s French Gallery, a critic writing in the Art Journal described it in the following terms: ‘A wayward young lady, on whose face is written pain and sorrow, if not remorse. Her female companion has conducted her to the foot of a rocky height on which is perched a convent. The lovely penitent has brought with her a votive gold trinket and a candle and her companion is apparently urging her to ascend a rugged path, which leads to rest and peace, before night closes’.
- Subjects (general)
- Emotions and Mental States Human Figures Travel
- Subjects (specific)
- barefoot grief journeys penitents pilgrims (people) remorse rocks (landforms) women (female humans)
- Provenance
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With French Gallery (dealer), London, 1877–84; brought, by Henry Wallis, proprietor of the French Gallery, to Melbourne for exhibition, 1884[1]; from where purchased for the NGV, 1884.
[1] See ‘Art Notes’, in The Argus, Melbourne, Friday 15 August 1884, p. 7, Accessed: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6055400
Exhibited: Beyond Missolonghi, French Gallery (dealer), London, 1877; Henry Wallis’s rooms, Imperial chambers, Bank Place, Melbourne 1884.
