The quarrel: Old cross
(c. 1870)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 98.5 × 130.1 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.l.: GJPINWELL
- Accession Number
- 468-2
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1909
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- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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A man and woman are seated here on the steps of a village cross after a quarrel. He tunes his violin, while she watches a rook perched on the back of a sheep. The scene represents Bicknoller churchyard in Somerset with the Quantock hills in the distance. Pinwell’s biographer G. C. Williamson noted in 1900 that the couple in this painting was ‘painted from actual persons and with all the Pre-Raphaelite truth that Pinwell possessed’.
- Subjects (general)
- Daily Life Human Figures Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
- conflict (general sense) couples crosses (visual works) discord domestic sheep (species) scenes (depictions) villages violins
Frame
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Classical Revival in style, there are a number of Academy frames with this form and detail in the collection. For example J. C. Waite Coaxing Ways .
This work was shown at the Royal Academy in 1901. - Framemaker
- Unknown - 19th century
- Date
- c.1870
- Materials
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timber, composition, gold leaf
- Frame Condition
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good original condition
- Dimensions
- 134 x 165.5 x 11.5 cm