(Study of a girl, half-nude, leaning on box)
(c. 1897)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 73.1 × 59.9 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.l.: HUGH RAMSAY (SAY underlined)
inscribed (vertically) on reverse l.l.: RAMSAY - Accession Number
- 2003.294
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation by the Estate of Mr John Wicking, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2003
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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During the 1890s Hugh Ramsay was considered one of the most gifted students at the National Gallery School in Melbourne, for reasons that are clearly evident in this carefully studied and sensitively realised nude. Although he was not successful in winning a travelling scholarship, Ramsay was determined to join the growing number of Australian artists who were living in Montparnasse and he arrived in Paris early 1901. He achieved almost immediate success when four of his works were selected for the Salon in 1902. Chronic ill health then forced the young painter to return to Australia and he passed away in 1906, tragically cutting short the life of one of Australia’s most talented artists.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- furniture nudes (representations) women (female humans)
