These resources are designed for secondary students of French language, for use in conjunction with Van Gogh and the Seasons.
Though the label simply indicates Isaac Whitehead, the frame comes from the time when the business was run by Isaac Whitehead junior.
The large plaque, centre bottom, was added by the NGV after purchasing the painting.
The maker is identified by a stencil, centre top reverse, much of which is illegible but which clearly identifies MARCHAND, DUREUR and part of the address 3 RUE NEUVE ……
This small, handsome, somewhat out-of-scale frame is a fine example of a Louis XIV frame built with the manufacturing processes of the nineteenth century.
Callan may have been the Sydney counterpart to Thallon in Melbourne. Numerous entries in the Thallon ledger of 1888–1903 make reference to Callan handling pictures on Thallon’s behalf in SydneyR
A little later a thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peep-holes of the stereoscope, as though they were the attic-windows of the infinit
This is the first acquisition made through the Eugénie Crawford Bequest, which is specifically for paintings by artists of the second generation of the School of Par
Working class girl For many of us the iconic white Bonds athletic singlet top conjures up images of burly sun-bronzed Aussie men and working class roots.
Although a thousand years (literally) separate Napoleon and Charlemagne, they have a lot in common: both ruled France; both created empires that united much of Western Europe; both crossed the…
Join NGV during Bupa’s Healthy Cities Challenge for a somatic yoga and meditation session, as part of Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 with Melbourne-based artist and practitioner Shannon May…
Murano is, in some ways, a mini Venice. It’s bisected by its own Grand Cana
The NGV recently acquired twenty-four sculptures by German-French artist Hans Arp, as part of a donation of over two hundred works from the artist’s estate, Stiftung Arp e.
Nicolas Poussin was a French artist who trained for a short period in Paris but felt drawn to Italian art more than the art of his own country.