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A sheep shearing match
1875
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 37.5 × 83.1 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed (diagonally) in black paint l.c.r.: 1875
inscribed in black paint l.c.r.: E. CROWE - Accession Number
- 2002.162
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by Ms Deidre Cowan, Governor, 2002
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Eyre Crowe spent his childhood in France. At the age of fifteen, he entered the studio of the artist Paul Delaroche. Delaroche was renowned for large-scale history and narrative paintings which he rendered in a highly finished and detailed manner, in a style derived from Neo-Classicism. Crowe painted with an intense realism and he had a very fine technique, almost like that of a miniaturist. He also had remarkable powers of observation and related many subtle nuances of a scene, which gives his work a seductive impression of credibility and authenticity. Even during Crowe’s lifetime, his paintings were likened to photographs.
- Subjects (general)
- Agriculture Animals Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- animal enclosure competitions (events) domestic sheep (species) men (male humans) shearers sheep shears tents (portable buildings) wool (hair material)
