Maria
À propos du tableau
Maria is an 1836 oil painting by the English artist Charles Landseer. It is inspired by a passage in the 1768 novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by the Anglo-Irish author Laurence Sterne. It depicts Maria, a mournful young woman left disconsolate by her husband's death. She is accompanied by a small dog.
The painting was displayed at the 1836 exhibition of the British Institution, held at Pall Mall. It was purchased by John Sheepshanks, a noted collector of contemporary British art, who in 1857 donated it to the new Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington as part of the Sheepshanks Gift.
Selon le musée
The subject comes from Laurence Sterne's novel A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). It depicts, 'poor Maria sitting under a poplar...with her elbow in her lap…and her head leaning on one side…dressed in white'. A dog takes the place of her lost lover. The artist was the elder brother of the painter Edwin Landseer.
Victoria and Albert Museum
