Idyll - Woman with a flute
(Idylle - Femme à la flûte)
1874
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 118.5 × 92.6 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.c.r.: J J. HENNER / 1874
- Accession Number
- 4717-3
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1933
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- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Highly poetic and melancholy of disposition, Jean-Jacques Henner principally painted mythological escapes into a nostalgic past, and deeply disturbing religious images of penitence and death. Henner’s bucolic allegories, such as this one, had their roots in the artist’s deep love of classical literature. Henner cared little for complicated pretexts of subject. His paintings stood out for their minimalist approach – depicting only one or two figures, often posed in ambiguous penumbral settings.
- Subjects (general)
- Allegory and Symbols Human Figures Religion and Mythology
- Subjects (specific)
- flutes (aerophones) nudes (representations) nymphs seated figures side views women (female humans)
- Provenance
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Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1874, no. 1032; purchased from the artist by M. Duchene, Paris, c. 1874, from whom acquired by Henry Wallis, of the French Gallery (dealer), London, c. 1875–84, until 1932; from where purchased, on the advice of Randall Davies, for the Felton Bequest, 1932; arrived Melbourne, 1933.
Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1874, no. 1032.
