File:Louis Gallait - Art and Liberty - Walters 3778.jpg
Original file (1,384 × 1,800 pixels, file size: 1.03 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
Louis Gallait: Art and Liberty
(   ) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
Art and Liberty |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: This painting typifies the so-called "juste-milieu" (middle path) for which Gallait was so admired during his lifetime. The subject is Romantic in its idealization of the poor but virtuous itinerant musician, who bows to no authority but his own artistic muse. At the same time, it is restrained in its emotional tenor and painted with great technical assurance in the rendering of the body and in the carefully described details of the musician's dress. This is a reduced version of this subject now at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts of Belgium. When the larger version was exhibited at the Salon of 1851, critics praised the composition for its masterful drawing and melancholic dignity. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1859 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on wood (mahogany) panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 86 cm (33.8 in); width: 65 cm (25.5 in); Framed height: 101 cm (39.7 in); width: 86.4 cm (34 in); depth: 4.4 cm (1.7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
37.78 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of creation | Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Acquired by William T. Walters, 1880 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions | [Signature] Lower left: Louis Gallait/; [Date] Lower left: 1859 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source |
Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
|
This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Walters Art Museum as part of a cooperation project. All artworks in the photographs are in public domain due to age. The photographs of two-dimensional objects are also in the public domain. Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
In the case of the text descriptions, copyright restrictions only apply to longer descriptions which cross the threshold of originality.
|
|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
This digital reproduction has been released under the following licenses:
In many jurisdictions, faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are not copyrightable. The Wikimedia Foundation's position is that these works are not copyrightable in the United States (see Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs). In these jurisdictions, this work is actually in the public domain and the requirements of the digital reproduction's license are not compulsory. | ||||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 11:55, 25 March 2012 | | 1,384 × 1,800 (1.03 MB) | File Upload Bot (Kaldari) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = {{Creator:Louis Gallait}} |title = ''Art and Liberty'' |description = {{en|This painting typifies the so-called "juste-milieu" (middle path) for which Gallait was s... |
File usage
The following page uses this file:
