Buyers and sellers (Christ driving out the money changers)
(c. 1942)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 122.4 × 152.9 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
- Inscription
- inscribed in white paint l.r.: Duffy
inscribed (vertically) in pen and ink on paper label on reverse c.l.: Loui(...illeg.) / 23 St (...illeg.) ad / Le
inscribed (vertically) in pen and ink on paper label on reverse c.r.: PassengerTrain (underlined) / Louis (underlined) C. Duffy / 23 / 23 (...illeg.) St Mary's Road / Leamington (Lea underlined) / (...illeg.) ar (...illeg.) shire - Accession Number
- 2006.491
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with the assistance of Bruce Parncutt and Robin Campbell, 2006
© Louis Duffy Estate
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
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Allegory and Symbols Human Figures Religion and Mythology
- Subjects (specific)
- ammunition businessmen capitalists (people) churchyards Life of Jesus Christ (New Testament narrative) merchants religious characters trade (general function)
- Frame
- Original, by Alfred Stiles & Sons, London
Frame
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The frame on Louis Duffy’s painting Buyers and sellers (Christ driving out the money changers) came with the painting at the time of acquisition in 2006. The frame is constructed from a wooden profile with a stippled gesso/painted finish. The frame is most likely the original presentation of the work. An inscription on the reverse of the canvas reads: L Duffy followed by Stiles. It is likely Stiles is the frame maker Alfred Stiles & Sons, who received the commission to make frames for the war artists. The frame carries splashes of the shellac coating that covered the painting prior to cleaning.
The profile of the frame is one that would have carried decorative mouldings along the flat sections in a previous generation of frame making.
The painting was cleaned in 2007. - Framemaker
- Alfred Stiles
London - Date
- c.1940
- Materials
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wooden profile with a stippled gesso/painted finish
- Condition
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good original condition
- More Information
- National Portrait Gallery