File:Lord Leighton, Frederic, After Vespers, 1871.jpg
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Frederic Leighton: After Vespers
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q160252 |
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Title |
English: After Vespers |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre |
portrait ![]() |
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Description |
English: Catalogue Entry:
A member of the Royal Academy by 1864 and elected its president in 1878, Frederic, Lord Leighton reached the apex of the British art world at a young age. Knighted in 1878, ennobled in 1886, and elevated to a life peerage as Baron of Stretton (ironically, the day before he died), he rose through the ranks of society in a manner that was unprecedented for a modern British artist. Leighton’s great success coincided with the Aesthetic movement of the 1870s and 1880s, in which a cult of beauty reigned in literature, the fine arts, and especially the decorative arts. Models were sought from multiple sources, primarily Greco-Roman antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and Asian art, particularly Japanese. Leighton was well prepared to emulate the great Italian masters of the past by his friendships with the Italophiles Robert Browning and John Ruskin, and by his frequent travels abroad.
Gallery Label: After Vespers epitomizes the delicacy and refinement that Leighton’s Victorian clients appreciated. The setting, with faithfully reproduced mosaics, is St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice. The painting’s subject, however, is less the magnificent sanctuary than an enigmatic young woman. Her gold earrings and beads mark her elevated social status, and she gently lifts her skirt to keep it off the dusty floor. Her melancholy expression hints, perhaps, at unrequited love. |
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Date |
1871 date QS:P571,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 111.5 cm (43.8 in); width: 71.5 cm (28.1 in) dimensions QS:P2048,111.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,71.5U174728 frame: height: 161.9 cm (63.7 in); width: 122.6 cm (48.2 in); depth: 11.3 cm (4.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,161.9U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,122.6U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,11.3U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q2603905 |
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Current location |
European Art |
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Accession number |
y1961-17 |
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Credit line | Museum purchase | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | Princeton University Art Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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